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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.

Agnes Varda

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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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Beautiful Crazy Film Maybe Stopped Stupid Young
Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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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, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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 see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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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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