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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.

Agnes Varda

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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It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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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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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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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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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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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