The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
AGNES VARDAI don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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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.
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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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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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 think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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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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