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.
AGNES VARDAI should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You have to invent life.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see 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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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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 didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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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