You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
AGNES VARDAI’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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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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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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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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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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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