I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
AGNES VARDAI tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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 think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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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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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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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 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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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