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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.

Agnes Varda

The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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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 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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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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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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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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