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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.

Agnes Varda

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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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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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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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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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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