I go back to many films that I really love.
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 can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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’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 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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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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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