I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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 was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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