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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.

Agnes Varda

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
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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Draed Innocent Masterpiece Say Sometimes Start Way
I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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Beautiful Expensive Jewelry Lost Service Tip
I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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Film Little Other Own People Pre-Prepared Star System Thing
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
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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Mirror Portrait See Self You Yourself
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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Answer Humor Joke Laughing Strong Themselves Weapon Women
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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Dry Edit Les Make Minimum More Plage Refined Saying Square Use Way Well
You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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Always Eating Even Nothing Vagabonds Way World
When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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Cinema Country Different Director Film First High Jump Language Pole Started Three Women
I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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Away Catch Consumption Documentary Eating Ethnography People Want Problem Serious Sociologie Subject Thinker Throw Wanted
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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Explain Language Liked Mean Painting Picasso Reality Try Trying
I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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Educated Nothing Part Shy Stupidity
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 think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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Family Need Nest Something Think Thinking
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

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