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.
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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You have to invent life.
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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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