It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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 try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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I had flops, I had success.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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