To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
AGNES VARDAPeople know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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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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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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