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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.

Agnes Varda

I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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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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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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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 didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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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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