We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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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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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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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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 had flops, I had success.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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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 can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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