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.
AGNES VARDAIf you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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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 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.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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.
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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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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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