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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.

Agnes Varda

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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Especially Filmmaking Saw Strong Woman
Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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.
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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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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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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 tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.

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