I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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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Nostalgia 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.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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