I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
AGNES VARDAWe need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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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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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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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 had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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