Even 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.
AGNES VARDATo 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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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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You have to invent life.
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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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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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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 never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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