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!
AGNES VARDAI never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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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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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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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’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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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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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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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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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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