I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
AGNES VARDAThe boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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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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You have to invent life.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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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 had flops, I had success.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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