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.
AGNES VARDAI’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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 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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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You have to invent life.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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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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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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