Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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To 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.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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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.
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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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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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