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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.

Agnes Varda

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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Admire Help Learn School Shoot Something Student Trying Wish
I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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Cheat Color Hair Hated Myself Totally White
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
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
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Bore Feminist Slow Society
Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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Cinema Essential Feel Good Job Need Work Yesterday
I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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Another Film Little Own Time Watch Watches
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
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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Always Film Giving Movie People Show Thing
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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Emotion Idea Life Looking Lot Mean People Share
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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Boring Contradiction Country Lovely Myself Sound Subject Took
I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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Career Film Made Thinking World
I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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Feminism Speak Struggle Wanted
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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Artist Hand Painter Tool
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.
AGNES VARDA

Always Could Film Free Money Sometimes Thinking Work
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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Abandoned Body Early Film Getting Gleaning Photo Picture

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