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.
AGNES VARDAI need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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 had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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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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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 don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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