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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.

Agnes Varda

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 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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I had flops, I had success.
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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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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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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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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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.

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