This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
AGNES VARDAAn 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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 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 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.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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.
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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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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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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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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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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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