I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
AGNES VARDAI think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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