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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

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 didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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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 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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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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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 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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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You have to invent life.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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