I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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You have to invent life.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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.
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