People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
AGNES VARDAI’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You have to invent life.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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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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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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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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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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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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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.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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