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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”

Agnes Varda

I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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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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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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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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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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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 have to invent life.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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 call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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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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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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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