I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
AGNES VARDASociety is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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 had flops, I had success.
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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 watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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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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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 call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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You have to invent life.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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