It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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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’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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You have to invent life.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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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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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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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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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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