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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.

Agnes Varda

I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
AGNES VARDA

Film Little Other Own People Pre-Prepared Star System Thing
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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Dry Edit Les Make Minimum More Plage Refined Saying Square Use Way Well
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 did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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Especially Filmmaking Saw Strong Woman
I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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Family Need Nest Something Think Thinking
I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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Explain Language Liked Mean Painting Picasso Reality Try Trying
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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Always Film Giving Movie People Show Thing
I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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Career Film Made Thinking World
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.
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Interesting Life People Possibility Relate Tell Themselves
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Bore Feminist Slow Society
I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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Able Allegorical Express Find Image Say Saying Show Thing Wanted
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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Deal Image Mean Need Reality Representation Time Use
I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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Confidence Film Insect Looking Movie People Thinking
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.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Book Find Good List Novel Star Thing Year
My grandson says I’m punk.
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Call Grandson Nickname Punk
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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Artist Hand Painter Tool

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