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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

Agnes Varda

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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Almost Children Recite Recognize Suffering
It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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Energy Nice Ourselves Sleep Sleeping Sometimes Somewhere Thinking
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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Arrive Belief Blue Bolt Inspiration Inspirational
I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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Career Film Made Thinking World
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
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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Black Change History People Right Slow State Two Vote
People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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Believe Children Feel Old Orphan People Person Thinking
You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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Always Eating Even Nothing Vagabonds Way World
I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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Differently Make Relate Something Thing Time
The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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Mirror Portrait See Self You Yourself
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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Always Couple Cuple Especially Fragile More Over Strong Thirty Year
I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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Educated Nothing Part Shy Stupidity
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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Allegory Another Mean More Need Shape Something Tell Vagabond
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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Coffee Lot Nothing People Rosemary Trying Work
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
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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Cinema Country Different Director Film First High Jump Language Pole Started Three Women

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