I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
AGNES VARDAYou have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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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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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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