Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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