People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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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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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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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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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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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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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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 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.
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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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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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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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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