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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.

Agnes Varda

I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
AGNES VARDA

Film Ghouls Image Interested Looking Made Unless Woman
Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Essential Feel Good Job Need Work Yesterday
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Bore Feminist Slow Society
I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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Camera Changed Digital Filming Handmade Installation Video View
I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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Being Different Exactly People Something Trying Wish
I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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Melancholy Missing Nostalgia People Some
You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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Audience Fifty Four Getting Minute Much Nervous
I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
AGNES VARDA

Alive Cinema Fighting Hope Struggle
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.
AGNES VARDA

Assistant Camera Film School Thinking Trainee
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
AGNES VARDA

Allegory Another Mean More Need Shape Something Tell Vagabond
I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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Adventure Always Find First Spring Trying
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.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Children Loved Mean Old People Poetry Reciting Time Wife Woman
Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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Bringing Everyday Memories Nostalgia Sense Special
I had flops, I had success.
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Down Flop Success Up
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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Another Buy Cook Feeling Good Pasta

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