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!
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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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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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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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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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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 trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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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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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.
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