You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
AGNES VARDAPeople like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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I had flops, I had success.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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