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!
AGNES VARDAI’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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