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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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All Hate Myself Nothing Repeat Time
I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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Bed Documentary Idea Knowing People Speak Speaking Telling Trying Wonderful
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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Almost Children Recite Recognize Suffering
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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Able Allegorical Express Find Image Say Saying Show Thing Wanted
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
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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Bresson Cassavetes Early Film Godard Love Need Some Time Unless Watch
Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Ahead Filmmaker Little Made Many Resurgent Time
People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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Always Couple Especially Fragile Happen More Story Thirty Year
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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Beautiful Casino Dealer Film Gambling Made Naked People Player Portrait Scene Surrealistic
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
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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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Cinema Fel Forever Here Loved Movie
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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Dry Edit Les Make Minimum More Plage Refined Saying Square Use Way Well
Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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Bringing Everyday Memories Nostalgia Sense Special
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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Contemporary Country Done Last Literature Painting People Saw Strongly Theatre Virginia Year
Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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Draed Innocent Masterpiece Say Sometimes Start Way

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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