People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
AGNES VARDAWe got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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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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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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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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