Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
AGNES VARDAI think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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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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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 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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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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I had flops, I had success.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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