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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.

Agnes Varda

An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Children Loved Mean Old People Poetry Reciting Time Wife Woman
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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Answer Humor Strong Such Thinking Weapon
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.
AGNES VARDA

Discover Incredible Interesting Ordinary People Real Stories Themselves Treasure Way
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.
AGNES VARDA

Answer Humor Joke Laughing Strong Themselves Weapon Women
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
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’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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Alive Cinema Fighting Hope Struggle
I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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Back Memories Memory Mind Nostalgic
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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Afraid Doing Look Ridiculous Risk Such Take Wished
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!
AGNES VARDA

Around Bowl Cut Cutting Fashion Nineteen Put Time
I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
AGNES VARDA

Film Little Other Own People Pre-Prepared Star System Thing
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.
AGNES VARDA

Make Mirror Need One Photo Portrait Self Tool
Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Essential Feel Good Job Need Work Yesterday
The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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Art Artwork Critic Film Know Time
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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Artist Hand Painter Tool
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
AGNES VARDA

Always Couple Cuple Especially Fragile More Over Strong Thirty Year

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