There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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 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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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