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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!

Agnes Varda

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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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 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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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