I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
AGNES VARDAAn old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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You have to invent life.
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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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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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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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