My grandson says I’m punk.
AGNES VARDAShe almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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 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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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.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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