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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.

Agnes Varda

I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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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 was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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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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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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