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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

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 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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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You have to invent life.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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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