Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
AGNES VARDAIt’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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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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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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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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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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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 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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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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