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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.

Agnes Varda

I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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Bed Documentary Idea Knowing People Speak Speaking Telling Trying Wonderful
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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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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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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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Assistant Camera Film School Thinking Trainee
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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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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’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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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