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.
AGNES VARDAI was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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 was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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