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.
AGNES VARDAIt’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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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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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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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 don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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