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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.

Agnes Varda

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
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
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
I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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Coffee Lot Nothing People Rosemary Trying Work
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’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
I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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Educated Nothing Part Shy Stupidity
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
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
I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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Always Eating Even Nothing Vagabonds Way World
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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Beautiful Crazy Film Maybe Stopped Stupid Young
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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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