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Agnes Varda

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
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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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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 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’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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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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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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