We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
AGNES VARDAI’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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 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.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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 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.
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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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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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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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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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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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