Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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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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’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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 tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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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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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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