My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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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 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 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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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.
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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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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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