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.
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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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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