I had flops, I had success.
AGNES VARDAI think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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You have to invent life.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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 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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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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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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 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’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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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 don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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