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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.

Agnes Varda

When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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Connection Established Film People Understand
I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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 try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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Find Landscape Opened People
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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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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