I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
AGNES VARDAIf you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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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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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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