This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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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’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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