I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
AGNES VARDAI’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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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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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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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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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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