I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
AGNES VARDAWe got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped 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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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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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.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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 think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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