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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.

Agnes Varda

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 go back to many films that I really love.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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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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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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You have to invent life.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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.
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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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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I 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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