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.
AGNES VARDAYou are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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You have to invent life.
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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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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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Nostalgia 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.
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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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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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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’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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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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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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