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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

Agnes Varda

Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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.
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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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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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.
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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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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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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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.
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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 think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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