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Agnes Varda

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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Confidence Film Insect Looking Movie People Thinking
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
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
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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Artist Hand Painter Tool
I had flops, I had success.
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Down Flop Success Up
I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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Cheat Color Hair Hated Myself Totally White
An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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Beautiful Children Loved Mean Old People Poetry Reciting Time Wife Woman
I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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Always Could Film Free Money Sometimes Thinking Work
I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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Beautiful Book Find Good List Novel Star Thing Year
I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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Camera Changed Digital Filming Handmade Installation Video View
Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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Bad Better Film God Good One Yesterday
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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Beautiful Crazy Film Maybe Stopped Stupid Young
I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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Cinema Fel Forever Here Loved Movie
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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Deal Image Mean Need Reality Representation Time Use
I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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Another Film Little Own Time Watch Watches
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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Emotion Idea Life Looking Lot Mean People Share
I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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Feminism Speak Struggle Wanted
I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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Beautiful Certain Film Keep Level Many People Quality Star
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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Especially Filmmaking Saw Strong Woman
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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Always Film Giving Movie People Show Thing
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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Bad People Saying Seeing Some Thing Women
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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Find Landscape Opened People
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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Bed Documentary Idea Knowing People Speak Speaking Telling Trying Wonderful
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
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 see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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Admire Help Learn School Shoot Something Student Trying Wish
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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Cinema Family Happen Living Long Process Travel Way

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