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 have to invent life.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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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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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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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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In 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.
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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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