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.
AGNES VARDAI had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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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 didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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