To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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