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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.

Agnes Varda

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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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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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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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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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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