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.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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You have to invent life.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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