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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 had flops, I had success.
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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 tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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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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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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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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Career Film Made Thinking World
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 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 are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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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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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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You have to invent life.
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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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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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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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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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