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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 call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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Discover Incredible Interesting Ordinary People Real Stories Themselves Treasure Way
There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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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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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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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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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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You have to invent life.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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 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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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