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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.

Agnes Varda

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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All Camera Cat Computer Need
The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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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.
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Beautiful Children Loved Mean Old People Poetry Reciting Time Wife Woman
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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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 tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.

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