I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
AGNES VARDAIn 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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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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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!
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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 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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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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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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You have to invent life.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I had flops, I had success.
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