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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.

Agnes Varda

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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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 call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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