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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’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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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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.
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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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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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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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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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