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.
AGNES VARDAI hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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 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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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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