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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.

Agnes Varda

I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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Back Memories Memory Mind Nostalgic
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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Art Boundaries Cinema Contemporary Critics Film Rigid Unbelievable
My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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Call Cine Company Herb Hot Rosemary Speed Tamaris Water
She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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Almost Children Recite Recognize Suffering
If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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Enemy Felt Like Nothing Think Thinking Way Young
I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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Film Ghouls Image Interested Looking Made Unless Woman
But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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Alone Inside Ourselves Revolt Road Something Way Women
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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Adventure Always Find First Spring Trying
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
Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Ahead Filmmaker Little Made Many Resurgent Time
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
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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Beautiful Children Loved Mean Old People Poetry Reciting Time Wife Woman
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
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
I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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Beautiful Expensive Jewelry Lost Service Tip
I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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Melancholy Missing Nostalgia People Some

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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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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