Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
AGNES VARDAGleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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