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.
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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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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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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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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