I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
AGNES VARDASociety is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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 had flops, I had success.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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 tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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