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

Agnes Varda

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
Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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Bad Better Film God Good One Yesterday
My grandson says I’m punk.
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Call Grandson Nickname Punk
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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Alive Cinema Fighting Hope Struggle
But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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Alone Inside Ourselves Revolt Road Something Way Women
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Bore Feminist Slow Society
When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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Contemporary Country Done Last Literature Painting People Saw Strongly Theatre Virginia Year
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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Alone Brother Courageous Much Photographer Thinking Way Worked
The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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Art Artwork Critic Film Know Time
I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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Able Allegorical Express Find Image Say Saying Show Thing Wanted
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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Believe Children Feel Old Orphan People Person Thinking
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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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Confidence Film Insect Looking Movie People Thinking
Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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Bresson Cassavetes Early Film Godard Love Need Some Time Unless Watch
I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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Especially Filmmaking Saw Strong Woman

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