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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

Agnes Varda

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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 fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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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Contemporary Country Done Last Literature Painting People Saw Strongly Theatre Virginia Year
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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Beautiful Casino Dealer Film Gambling Made Naked People Player Portrait Scene Surrealistic
I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I had flops, I had success.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

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