I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
AGNES VARDAIt’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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 didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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