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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.

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
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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Back Come Feel Nostalgia Sometimes Time Want
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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Film Ghouls Image Interested Looking Made Unless Woman
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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Make Mirror Need One Photo Portrait Self Tool
The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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Art Artwork Critic Film Know Time
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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Care Careful Different People Think Thinking
Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Ahead Filmmaker Little Made Many Resurgent Time
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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Away Catch Consumption Documentary Eating Ethnography People Want Problem Serious Sociologie Subject Thinker Throw Wanted
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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Contemporary Country Done Last Literature Painting People Saw Strongly Theatre Virginia Year
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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Dry Edit Les Make Minimum More Plage Refined Saying Square Use Way Well
I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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Afraid Doing Look Ridiculous Risk Such Take Wished
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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Answer Humor Strong Such Thinking Weapon
My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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Call Cine Company Herb Hot Rosemary Speed Tamaris Water
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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Film Little Other Own People Pre-Prepared Star System Thing
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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Always Couple Cuple Especially Fragile More Over Strong Thirty Year
You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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Always Eating Even Nothing Vagabonds Way World

I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.

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