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 VARDAEven 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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