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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

Agnes Varda

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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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You have to invent life.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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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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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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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