I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
AGNES VARDAHands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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People 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.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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