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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.

Agnes Varda

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.
AGNES VARDA

Dry Edit Les Make Minimum More Plage Refined Saying Square Use Way Well
I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
AGNES VARDA

Cheat Color Hair Hated Myself Totally White
Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
AGNES VARDA

Bringing Everyday Memories Nostalgia Sense Special
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.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Casino Dealer Film Gambling Made Naked People Player Portrait Scene Surrealistic
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

Bresson Cassavetes Early Film Godard Love Need Some Time Unless Watch
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
AGNES VARDA

Allegory Another Mean More Need Shape Something Tell Vagabond
I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
AGNES VARDA

Adventure Always Find First Spring Trying
People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
AGNES VARDA

Believe Children Feel Old Orphan People Person Thinking
I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
AGNES VARDA

Bad People Saying Seeing Some Thing Women
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.
AGNES VARDA

Always Film Giving Movie People Show Thing
I had flops, I had success.
AGNES VARDA

Down Flop Success Up
My grandson says I’m punk.
AGNES VARDA

Call Grandson Nickname Punk
I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
AGNES VARDA

Admire Help Learn School Shoot Something Student Trying Wish
I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Expensive Jewelry Lost Service Tip
I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
AGNES VARDA

Film Little Other Own People Pre-Prepared Star System Thing
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
AGNES VARDA

Back Come Feel Nostalgia Sometimes Time Want

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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