People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
AGNES VARDAI’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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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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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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 don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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