I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
AGNES VARDASometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I had flops, I had success.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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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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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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 go back to many films that I really love.
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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 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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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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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