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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 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.
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Discover Incredible Interesting Ordinary People Real Stories Themselves Treasure Way
I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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Cinema Fel Forever Here Loved Movie
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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Always Couple Cuple Especially Fragile More Over Strong Thirty Year
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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Another Buy Cook Feeling Good Pasta
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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All Camera Cat Computer Need
I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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Cheat Color Hair Hated Myself Totally White
I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
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Cinema Film Filmmaker First History Make People Picture Place Trying
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
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
With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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Beautiful Casino Dealer Film Gambling Made Naked People Player Portrait Scene Surrealistic
I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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Educated Nothing Part Shy Stupidity
My grandson says I’m punk.
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Call Grandson Nickname Punk
I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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Always Could Film Free Money Sometimes Thinking Work
I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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Boxing Competition Cross Kung Fu Learned Ocean Sportif Strong Thinking
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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Being Different Exactly People Something Trying Wish
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

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