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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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Feminism Speak Struggle Wanted
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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Carpenter Direct Director Film Muscle Need Strong
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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Cinema Film Filmmaker First History Make People Picture Place Trying
I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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Boxing Competition Cross Kung Fu Learned Ocean Sportif Strong Thinking
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Another Buy Cook Feeling Good Pasta
It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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Cinema Family Happen Living Long Process Travel Way
I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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Away Catch Consumption Documentary Eating Ethnography People Want Problem Serious Sociologie Subject Thinker Throw Wanted
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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Film Little Other Own People Pre-Prepared Star System Thing
It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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Energy Nice Ourselves Sleep Sleeping Sometimes Somewhere Thinking
Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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Documentary Every Line Fiction Science Texture True
I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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Beautiful Expensive Jewelry Lost Service Tip
I had flops, I had success.
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Down Flop Success Up
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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Black Change History People Right Slow State Two Vote
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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Find Landscape Opened People
I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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Family Need Nest Something Think Thinking
I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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Adventure Always Find First Spring Trying

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