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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 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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Bad People Saying Seeing Some Thing Women
My grandson says I’m punk.
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Call Grandson Nickname Punk
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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Being Different Exactly People Something Trying Wish
The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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Make Mirror Need One Photo Portrait Self Tool
Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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Cinema Essential Feel Good Job Need Work Yesterday
I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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Capture Love People Regular Something Stories Story Try Trying
With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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Beautiful Casino Dealer Film Gambling Made Naked People Player Portrait Scene Surrealistic
Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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Bringing Everyday Memories Nostalgia Sense Special
I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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Always Could Film Free Money Sometimes Thinking Work
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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Beautiful Celebrity Country Gainsbourg Impossible Nice People Sang Song Sound Translate Word
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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Boring Contradiction Country Lovely Myself Sound Subject Took
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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Mirror Portrait See Self You Yourself
I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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Melancholy Missing Nostalgia People Some
I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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Admire Help Learn School Shoot Something Student Trying Wish
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
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

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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