My grandson says I’m punk.
AGNES VARDAThe story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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 had flops, I had success.
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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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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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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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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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