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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

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.
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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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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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