I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
AGNES VARDAI’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made 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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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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