You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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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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 need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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 call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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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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