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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.

Agnes Varda

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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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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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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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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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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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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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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