You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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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 had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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You have to invent life.
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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’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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of 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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