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.
AGNES VARDAYou know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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