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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 missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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