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.
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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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You have to invent life.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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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.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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