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.
AGNES VARDAI quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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 tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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