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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.

Agnes Varda

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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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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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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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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