I had flops, I had success.
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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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I had flops, I had success.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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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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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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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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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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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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 invent life.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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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.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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