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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.

Agnes Varda

I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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’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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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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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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