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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.

Agnes Varda

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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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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