I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
AGNES VARDAI hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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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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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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