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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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You have to invent life.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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 think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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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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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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