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.
AGNES VARDAI’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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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 a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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I 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.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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