I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
AGNES VARDAIf we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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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 never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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 go back to many films that I really love.
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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’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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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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People 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.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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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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