If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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You have to invent life.
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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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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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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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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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