I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I had flops, I had success.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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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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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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