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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I 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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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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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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 think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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