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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.

Agnes Varda

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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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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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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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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