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.
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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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You have to invent life.
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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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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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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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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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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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