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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.

Agnes Varda

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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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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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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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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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