To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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