I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
AGNES VARDAThe tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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