I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
AGNES VARDAEven Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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It 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.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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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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