I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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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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