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.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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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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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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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 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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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