When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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 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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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 missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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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 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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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I 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!
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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