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.
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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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