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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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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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 was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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 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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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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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 didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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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