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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

Agnes Varda

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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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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Film Little Other Own People Pre-Prepared Star System Thing
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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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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Coffee Lot Nothing People Rosemary Trying Work
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 quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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Cinema Essential Feel Good Job Need Work Yesterday
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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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

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