Agnes Varda Quotes - Page 2

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• Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

  Agnes Varda

  Jobs, Yesterday, Needs

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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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.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Interesting, Possibility

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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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 - 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.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Children, Mean

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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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!

  Agnes Varda

  Fashion, Cutting, Nineteen

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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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.

  Agnes Varda

  Nice, Sleep, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.

  Agnes Varda

  Spring, Adventure, Trying

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

  Agnes Varda

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

  Agnes Varda

  Hair, Color, White

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

  Agnes Varda

  Want, Nostalgia, Sometimes

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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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.

  Agnes Varda

  Thinking, People, Different

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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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.

  Agnes Varda

  Mirrors, Self, Portraits

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Missing, Nostalgia

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.

  Agnes Varda

  Water, Hot, Rosemary

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me. I started totally free and crazy and innocent. Now 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, I don't do films pre-prepared by other people, I don't do star system. So I do my own little thing.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Crazy, Stupid

  Source: film.avclub.com

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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.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Want, Saying Bad Things

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.

  Agnes Varda

  Brother, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.

  Agnes Varda

  Knowing, People, Trying

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Connections, Film

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

  Agnes Varda

  Thinking, Needs, Nests

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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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.

  Agnes Varda

  Strong, Directors, Needs

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

  Agnes Varda

  Memories, Mind, Nostalgic

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

  Agnes Varda

  Watches, Littles, Film

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.

  Agnes Varda

  Long, Cinema, Way

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi." It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Song, Nice

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

  Agnes Varda

  Virginia, Years, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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