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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

With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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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 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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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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