We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
AGNES VARDAWith Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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 was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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