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.
AGNES VARDAI don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I had flops, I had success.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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