Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
AGNES VARDAI never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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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.
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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’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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You have to invent life.
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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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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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