I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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 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’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 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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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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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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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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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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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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You have to invent life.
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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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