She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
AGNES VARDAI wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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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 was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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