I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
AGNES VARDAI never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 have to invent life.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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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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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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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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