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.
AGNES VARDAI wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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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 was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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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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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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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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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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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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