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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.

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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Care Careful Different People Think Thinking
When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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Dry Edit Les Make Minimum More Plage Refined Saying Square Use Way Well
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
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
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
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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Answer Humor Strong Such Thinking Weapon
Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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Bad Better Film God Good One Yesterday
Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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Abandoned Body Early Film Getting Gleaning Photo Picture
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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Beautiful Book Find Good List Novel Star Thing Year
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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Always Couple Cuple Especially Fragile More Over Strong Thirty Year
I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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Especially Filmmaking Saw Strong Woman
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 had flops, I had success.
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Down Flop Success Up
I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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Cheat Color Hair Hated Myself Totally White
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Bore Feminist Slow Society
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

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