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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

Agnes Varda

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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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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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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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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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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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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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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 was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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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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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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