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.
AGNES VARDASometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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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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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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 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’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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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I 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.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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 go back to many films that I really love.
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