I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
AGNES VARDAMany filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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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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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 didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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I had flops, I had success.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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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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