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.
AGNES VARDAI go back to many films that I really love.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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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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 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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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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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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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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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 go back to many films that I really love.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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