I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
AGNES VARDAI should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I 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.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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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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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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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!
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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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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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