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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.

Agnes Varda

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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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 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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Always Could Film Free Money Sometimes Thinking Work
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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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