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.”
AGNES VARDAI think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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