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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.

Agnes Varda

I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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Differently Make Relate Something Thing Time
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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Explain Language Liked Mean Painting Picasso Reality Try Trying
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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Almost Children Recite Recognize Suffering
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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Always Couple Cuple Especially Fragile More Over Strong Thirty Year
You have to invent life.
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Discover Invent Life
I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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Arrive Belief Blue Bolt Inspiration Inspirational
People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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Believe Children Feel Old Orphan People Person Thinking
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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Deal Image Mean Need Reality Representation Time Use
You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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Audience Fifty Four Getting Minute Much Nervous
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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Answer Humor Joke Laughing Strong Themselves Weapon Women
I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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All Hate Myself Nothing Repeat Time
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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Contemporary Country Done Last Literature Painting People Saw Strongly Theatre Virginia Year
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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Find Landscape Opened People
It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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Cinema Family Happen Living Long Process Travel Way
An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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Beautiful Children Loved Mean Old People Poetry Reciting Time Wife Woman
My grandson says I’m punk.
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Call Grandson Nickname Punk

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’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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