I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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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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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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