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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

Agnes Varda

I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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 hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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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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Care Careful Different People Think Thinking
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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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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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 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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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