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.
AGNES VARDAI think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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