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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

I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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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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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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Away Catch Consumption Documentary Eating Ethnography People Want Problem Serious Sociologie Subject Thinker Throw Wanted
I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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Almost Children Recite Recognize Suffering
I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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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’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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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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