Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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 think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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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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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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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 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.
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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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