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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.

Agnes Varda

The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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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 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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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 don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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