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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

Agnes Varda

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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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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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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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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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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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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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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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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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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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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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