An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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 boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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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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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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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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