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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.

Agnes Varda

I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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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 missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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