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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

Agnes Varda

I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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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 need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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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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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.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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