I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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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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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 call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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 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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You have to invent life.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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