If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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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 feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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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’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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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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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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