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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

It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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Energy Nice Ourselves Sleep Sleeping Sometimes Somewhere Thinking
She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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Almost Children Recite Recognize Suffering
My grandson says I’m punk.
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Call Grandson Nickname Punk
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
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 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
I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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All Hate Myself Nothing Repeat Time
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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Always Couple Especially Fragile Happen More Story Thirty Year
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
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
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’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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Beautiful Certain Film Keep Level Many People Quality Star
I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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Beautiful Expensive Jewelry Lost Service Tip
We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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Among Like Look Trying Well Without
I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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Feminism Speak Struggle Wanted
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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Find Landscape Opened People
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
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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Answer Humor Strong Such Thinking Weapon
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
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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Adapted Anything Beautiful Book never Transform
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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Explain Language Liked Mean Painting Picasso Reality Try Trying
I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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Film Ghouls Image Interested Looking Made Unless Woman
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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Documentary Every Line Fiction Science Texture True
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Another Buy Cook Feeling Good Pasta
I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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Cinema Fel Forever Here Loved Movie
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Bore Feminist Slow Society
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

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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