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.
AGNES VARDAI don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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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 boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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 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 tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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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 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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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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