I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
AGNES VARDAI quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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 tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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