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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.

Agnes Varda

I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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