I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
AGNES VARDAI have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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’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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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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