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.
AGNES VARDAI had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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