I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
AGNES VARDAPeople think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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 tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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