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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

My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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Call Cine Company Herb Hot Rosemary Speed Tamaris Water
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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Mirror Portrait See Self You Yourself
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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Always Could Film Free Money Sometimes Thinking Work
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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Deal Image Mean Need Reality Representation Time Use
It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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Cinema Family Happen Living Long Process Travel Way
I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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Adapted Anything Beautiful Book never Transform
With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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Beautiful Casino Dealer Film Gambling Made Naked People Player Portrait Scene Surrealistic
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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Bresson Cassavetes Early Film Godard Love Need Some Time Unless Watch
I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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Alive Cinema Fighting Hope Struggle
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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Draed Innocent Masterpiece Say Sometimes Start Way
I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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Career Film Made Thinking World
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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Answer Humor Strong Such Thinking Weapon
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Another Buy Cook Feeling Good Pasta
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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Film Ghouls Image Interested Looking Made Unless Woman
When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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Beautiful Film Filmmaker Finished Made Started Wanted
It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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Interesting Life People Possibility Relate Tell Themselves

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