She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
AGNES VARDAI tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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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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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’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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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