I’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.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 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 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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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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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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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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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 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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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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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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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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