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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.

Agnes Varda

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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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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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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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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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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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 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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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.

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