I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
AGNES VARDAWhen I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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 think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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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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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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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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