You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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With 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.
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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