It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
AGNES VARDAI’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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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’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.
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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 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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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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