I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
AGNES VARDAPeople think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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 don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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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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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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