I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
AGNES VARDAIt’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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 did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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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’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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