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.
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’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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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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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 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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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.
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