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!
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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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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 was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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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’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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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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