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.”
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You have to invent life.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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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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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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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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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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