When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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