I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
AGNES VARDAI’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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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 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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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I’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,
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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You have to invent life.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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