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Agnes Varda

I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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Melancholy Missing Nostalgia People Some
Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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Cinema Essential Feel Good Job Need Work Yesterday
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
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
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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Abandoned Body Early Film Getting Gleaning Photo Picture
I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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Career Film Made Thinking World
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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Beautiful Film Filmmaker Finished Made Started Wanted
You have to invent life.
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Discover Invent Life
I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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Bad People Saying Seeing Some Thing Women
I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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Bed Documentary Idea Knowing People Speak Speaking Telling Trying Wonderful
I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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Capture Love People Regular Something Stories Story Try Trying
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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Alone Brother Courageous Much Photographer Thinking Way Worked
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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Always Couple Cuple Especially Fragile More Over Strong Thirty Year
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
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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Find Landscape Opened People

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