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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

Agnes Varda

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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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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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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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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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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 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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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