People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
AGNES VARDAYou can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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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 don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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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 was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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 know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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