It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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You have to invent life.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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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 did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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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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