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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 didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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Beautiful Book Find Good List Novel Star Thing Year
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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Artist Hand Painter Tool
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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Adventure Always Find First Spring Trying
I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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Film Ghouls Image Interested Looking Made Unless Woman
I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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Capture Love People Regular Something Stories Story Try Trying
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
Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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Cinema Essential Feel Good Job Need Work Yesterday
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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Answer Humor Joke Laughing Strong Themselves Weapon Women
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
If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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Enemy Felt Like Nothing Think Thinking Way Young
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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All Camera Cat Computer Need
Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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Bringing Everyday Memories Nostalgia Sense Special
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
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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Alone Brother Courageous Much Photographer Thinking Way Worked
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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Always Couple Especially Fragile Happen More Story Thirty Year
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

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