We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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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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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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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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