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.
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 had flops, I had success.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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