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Agnes Varda

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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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You have to invent life.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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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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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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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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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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