I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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