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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

Agnes Varda

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’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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