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.
AGNES VARDAI never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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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 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.
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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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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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