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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.

Agnes Varda

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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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 not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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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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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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You have to invent life.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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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