I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDAI was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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You have to invent life.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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 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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