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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.

Agnes Varda

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’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
Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Ahead Filmmaker Little Made Many Resurgent Time
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
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
But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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Alone Inside Ourselves Revolt Road Something Way Women
Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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Abandoned Body Early Film Getting Gleaning Photo Picture
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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Artist Hand Painter Tool
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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Bore Feminist Slow Society
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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Always Film Giving Movie People Show Thing
The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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Make Mirror Need One Photo Portrait Self Tool
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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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Another Film Little Own Time Watch Watches
I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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Bed Documentary Idea Knowing People Speak Speaking Telling Trying Wonderful
I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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Beautiful Crazy Film Maybe Stopped Stupid Young
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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Find Landscape Opened People

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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