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,
AGNES VARDAThe story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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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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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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