Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
AGNES VARDAI live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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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 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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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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 had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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