Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
AGNES VARDAI live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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 had flops, I had success.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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