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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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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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