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.
AGNES VARDAI live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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 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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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