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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

I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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Adventure Always Find First Spring Trying
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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Film Little Other Own People Pre-Prepared Star System Thing
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
You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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Audience Fifty Four Getting Minute Much Nervous
I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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Away Catch Consumption Documentary Eating Ethnography People Want Problem Serious Sociologie Subject Thinker Throw Wanted
I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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Back Memories Memory Mind Nostalgic
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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Connection Established Film People Understand
Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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Documentary Every Line Fiction Science Texture True
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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Alone Inside Ourselves Revolt Road Something Way Women
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
The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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Mirror Portrait See Self You Yourself
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
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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Coffee Lot Nothing People Rosemary Trying Work
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
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
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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Answer Humor Joke Laughing Strong Themselves Weapon Women

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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