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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.

Agnes Varda

I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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Differently Make Relate Something Thing Time
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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Around Bowl Cut Cutting Fashion Nineteen Put Time
My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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Call Cine Company Herb Hot Rosemary Speed Tamaris Water
When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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Beautiful Film Filmmaker Finished Made Started Wanted
I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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Alive Cinema Fighting Hope Struggle
You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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Always Eating Even Nothing Vagabonds Way World
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
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
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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Documentary Every Line Fiction Science Texture True
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
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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Beautiful Children Loved Mean Old People Poetry Reciting Time Wife Woman
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
I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
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Able Allegorical Express Find Image Say Saying Show Thing Wanted
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
The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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Art Artwork Critic Film Know Time
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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Draed Innocent Masterpiece Say Sometimes Start Way

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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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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