Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
AGNES VARDAIf you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 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.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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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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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.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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