I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
AGNES VARDAI quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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