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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.

Agnes Varda

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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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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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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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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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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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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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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