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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.

Agnes Varda

You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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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 it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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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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