I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
AGNES VARDAPeople 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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