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

Agnes Varda

I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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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’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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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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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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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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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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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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