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.
AGNES VARDAI’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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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 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 think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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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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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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