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.
AGNES VARDAI think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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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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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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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.
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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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