You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
AGNES VARDAI have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another 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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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 tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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