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.
AGNES VARDAI should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
-
-
We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
AGNES VARDA -
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 VARDA -
I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
AGNES VARDA -
I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
AGNES VARDA -
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.
AGNES VARDA -
She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
AGNES VARDA -
People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
AGNES VARDA -
I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
AGNES VARDA -
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.
AGNES VARDA -
Nostalgia 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.
AGNES VARDA -
It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
AGNES VARDA -
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
AGNES VARDA -
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.
AGNES VARDA -
I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
AGNES VARDA -
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.
AGNES VARDA