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.”
AGNES VARDAIt’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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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You have to invent life.
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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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 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 think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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