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

Agnes Varda

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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Black Change History People Right Slow State Two Vote
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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Family Need Nest Something Think Thinking
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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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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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 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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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 need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

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