Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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An 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.
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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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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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You have to invent life.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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