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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.

Agnes Varda

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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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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You have to invent life.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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 .
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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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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 think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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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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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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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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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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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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