I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
AGNES VARDAI’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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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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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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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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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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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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