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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.

Agnes Varda

I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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 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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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 see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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 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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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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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.

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