I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
AGNES VARDAI live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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 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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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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 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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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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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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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