I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
AGNES VARDABut 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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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 never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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