People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
AGNES VARDATo 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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You have to invent life.
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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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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.
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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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