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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.

Agnes Varda

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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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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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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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 think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.

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