I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
AGNES VARDAIf we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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