I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDAThe story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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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.
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