I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
AGNES VARDAI had flops, I had success.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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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 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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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