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.
AGNES VARDAGood cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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 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.
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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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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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 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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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