I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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You have to invent life.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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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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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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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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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 don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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