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!
AGNES VARDAHumor 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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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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