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 VARDANostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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 was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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You have to invent life.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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