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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 .

Agnes Varda

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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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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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 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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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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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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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