I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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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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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.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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You have to invent life.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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