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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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Back Come Feel Nostalgia Sometimes Time Want
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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Almost Children Recite Recognize Suffering
To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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Emotion Idea Life Looking Lot Mean People Share
I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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Feminism Speak Struggle Wanted
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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Alone Inside Ourselves Revolt Road Something Way Women
We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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Among Like Look Trying Well Without
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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Make Mirror Need One Photo Portrait Self Tool
With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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Beautiful Casino Dealer Film Gambling Made Naked People Player Portrait Scene Surrealistic
I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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Beautiful Book Find Good List Novel Star Thing Year
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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Boring Contradiction Country Lovely Myself Sound Subject Took
The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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Cheat Color Hair Hated Myself Totally White
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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Adventure Always Find First Spring Trying
I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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Capture Love People Regular Something Stories Story Try Trying
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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Boxing Competition Cross Kung Fu Learned Ocean Sportif Strong Thinking
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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Artist Hand Painter Tool
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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Always Film Giving Movie People Show Thing
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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Carpenter Direct Director Film Muscle Need Strong
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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Especially Filmmaking Saw Strong Woman
Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Ahead Filmmaker Little Made Many Resurgent Time
I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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Film Ghouls Image Interested Looking Made Unless Woman
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Another Buy Cook Feeling Good Pasta
I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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Admire Help Learn School Shoot Something Student Trying Wish
I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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Camera Changed Digital Filming Handmade Installation Video View
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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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Adapted Anything Beautiful Book never Transform

I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

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