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My grandson says I’m punk.

Agnes Varda

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 was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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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 think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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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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