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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

Agnes Varda

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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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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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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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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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You have to invent life.
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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’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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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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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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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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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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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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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

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