Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
AGNES VARDAI’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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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’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 tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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