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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.

Agnes Varda

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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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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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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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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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 had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.

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