Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
AGNES VARDAI think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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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 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 was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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