I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
AGNES VARDANostalgia 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.
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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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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 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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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