I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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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 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 had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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’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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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