I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
AGNES VARDAIt sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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.
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I 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.
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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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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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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 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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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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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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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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