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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

Agnes Varda

I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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Admire Help Learn School Shoot Something Student Trying Wish
Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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All Camera Cat Computer Need
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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Boring Contradiction Country Lovely Myself Sound Subject Took
I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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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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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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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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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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

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