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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

Agnes Varda

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 still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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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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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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