We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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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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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.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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