I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
AGNES VARDAI think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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