I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
AGNES VARDAMy grandson says I’m punk.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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 watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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