I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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You have to invent life.
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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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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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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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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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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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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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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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