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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

Agnes Varda

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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Abandoned Body Early Film Getting Gleaning Photo Picture
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
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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Find Landscape Opened People
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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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Art Boundaries Cinema Contemporary Critics Film Rigid Unbelievable
I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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Feminism Speak Struggle Wanted
I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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Cinema Fel Forever Here Loved Movie
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 free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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Always Could Film Free Money Sometimes Thinking Work
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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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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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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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 missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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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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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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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 call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.

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