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.
AGNES VARDAThe film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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’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 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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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You have to invent life.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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