If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
AGNES VARDAI think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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 not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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.”
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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You have to invent life.
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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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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 think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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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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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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