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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.

Agnes Varda

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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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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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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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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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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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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You have to invent life.
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