You have to invent life.
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 we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I 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!
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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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’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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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