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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 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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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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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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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You have to invent life.
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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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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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