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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.

Agnes Varda

I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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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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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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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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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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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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