I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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 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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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.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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You have to invent life.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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 tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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