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.
AGNES VARDAI had flops, I had success.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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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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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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You have to invent life.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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 boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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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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