I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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