I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDAHumor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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 did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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 watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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