We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
AGNES VARDAMy company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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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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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.
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You have to invent life.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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