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.
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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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You have to invent life.
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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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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.
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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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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