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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.

Agnes Varda

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
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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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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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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Always Film Giving Movie People Show Thing
The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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Beautiful Celebrity Country Gainsbourg Impossible Nice People Sang Song Sound Translate Word
Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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Call Grandson Nickname Punk
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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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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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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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