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,
AGNES VARDAPeople know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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 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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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 tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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