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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.

Agnes Varda

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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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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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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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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’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.

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