The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
AGNES VARDAPeople like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 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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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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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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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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You have to invent life.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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 wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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