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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.

Agnes Varda

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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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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You have to invent life.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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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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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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