Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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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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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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