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

Agnes Varda

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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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 invent life.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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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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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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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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