Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
AGNES VARDAI’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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 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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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.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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You have to invent life.
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