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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.

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 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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Bad People Saying Seeing Some Thing Women
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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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Educated Nothing Part Shy Stupidity
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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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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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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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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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