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.
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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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You have to invent life.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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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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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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 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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