It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
AGNES VARDAI’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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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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I’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.
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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 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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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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