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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.

Agnes Varda

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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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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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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 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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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