While I was editing, sometimes I would have these free associations, so maybe I would not have had that shot of the naked people if I had not found the files. I allowed myself that things would happen in the film, even though I had organized my trip in the boat and to rebuild the courtyard, and all this.
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Agnès Varda
Film director, photographer and installation artist
Belgium / France
Arts and letters
15 answers
What I notice or discover has to grow in my mind. I always wait until the ideas and impulses are so strong that they invade my mind and I have to pursue them.
Since 1973, I had written a few screenplays on feminist subjects, but nobody wanted them.
I was curious. Curiosity is a good thing. And I was curious about different people. And, as I said, I waited until something was strong enough to disturb me or inspire me to make a film.
Poverty in the world. Injustice.
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