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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

Agnes Varda

Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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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 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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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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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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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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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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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