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

Agnes Varda

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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Carpenter Direct Director Film Muscle Need Strong
I go back to many films that I really love.
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Film Love Need Really Watches Year
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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Bresson Cassavetes Early Film Godard Love Need Some Time Unless Watch
We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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Among Like Look Trying Well Without
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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Boxing Competition Cross Kung Fu Learned Ocean Sportif Strong Thinking
Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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Bad Better Film God Good One Yesterday
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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Beautiful Celebrity Country Gainsbourg Impossible Nice People Sang Song Sound Translate Word
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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Beautiful Expensive Jewelry Lost Service Tip
You have to invent life.
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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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Confidence Film Insect Looking Movie People Thinking
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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Deal Image Mean Need Reality Representation Time Use
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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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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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Autodidact Aware Learn Some Sure Way Wish
I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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