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.
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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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When 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.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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