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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.

Agnes Varda

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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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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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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Beautiful Film Filmmaker Finished Made Started Wanted
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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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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