Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
AGNES VARDAThe story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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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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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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