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.
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 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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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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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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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 was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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’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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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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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’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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