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.
AGNES VARDAI had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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You have to invent life.
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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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I 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.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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 a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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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’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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