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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!

Agnes Varda

I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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 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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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.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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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’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!

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