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.
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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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.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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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 don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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You have to invent life.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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