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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’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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 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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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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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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 go back to many films that I really love.
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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 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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