We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
AGNES VARDAYou can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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 was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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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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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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