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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

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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Always Film Giving Movie People Show Thing
It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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Energy Nice Ourselves Sleep Sleeping Sometimes Somewhere Thinking
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
My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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Call Cine Company Herb Hot Rosemary Speed Tamaris Water
I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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Autodidact Aware Learn Some Sure Way Wish
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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Answer Humor Strong Such Thinking Weapon
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
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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Allegory Another Mean More Need Shape Something Tell Vagabond
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Bore Feminist Slow Society
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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Artist Hand Painter Tool
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
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
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
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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Believe Children Feel Old Orphan People Person Thinking
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
I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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Family Need Nest Something Think Thinking

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