I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
AGNES VARDATo change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You have to invent life.
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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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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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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 had flops, I had success.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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