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.
AGNES VARDAShe almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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But 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.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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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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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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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 call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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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’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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