People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
AGNES VARDAI think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 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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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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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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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 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.
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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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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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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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