Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
AGNES VARDANostalgia 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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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 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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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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