People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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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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I had flops, I had success.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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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 tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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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