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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.

Agnes Varda

There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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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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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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You have to invent life.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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