We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
AGNES VARDAI’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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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 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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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 had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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