I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
AGNES VARDAI see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I had flops, I had success.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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 think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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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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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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You have to invent life.
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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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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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