The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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 think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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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 story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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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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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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