My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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 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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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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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 don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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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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