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

Agnes Varda

We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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Among Like Look Trying Well Without
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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 think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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 didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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I had flops, I had success.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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