I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
AGNES VARDAI did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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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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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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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 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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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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