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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.

Agnes Varda

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.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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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.
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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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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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