I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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