You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
AGNES VARDAWe need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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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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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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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