I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
AGNES VARDAEven 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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You have to invent life.
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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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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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