When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
AGNES VARDAThe story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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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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You have to invent life.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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 had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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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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