I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
AGNES VARDASometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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 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 think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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.
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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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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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