I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
AGNES VARDAHumor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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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’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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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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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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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 had flops, I had success.
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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’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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