People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
AGNES VARDAI 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!
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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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 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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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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