Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
AGNES VARDAI don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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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 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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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 had flops, I had success.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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