I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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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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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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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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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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