Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
AGNES VARDAI’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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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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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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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’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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 see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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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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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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