If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
AGNES VARDAI had flops, I had success.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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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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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 tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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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 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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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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