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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.

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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Contemporary Country Done Last Literature Painting People Saw Strongly Theatre Virginia Year
I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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Being Different Exactly People Something Trying Wish
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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Film Little Other Own People Pre-Prepared Star System Thing
I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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Back Memories Memory Mind Nostalgic
I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Bore Feminist Slow Society
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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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Call Grandson Nickname Punk
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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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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Especially Filmmaking Saw Strong Woman
I had flops, I had success.
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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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