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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.

Agnes Varda

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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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 don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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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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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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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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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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