I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
AGNES VARDAIt’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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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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 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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