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 VARDAIt’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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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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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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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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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