I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
AGNES VARDAI think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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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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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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