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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’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 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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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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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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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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 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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