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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.

Agnes Varda

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Essential Feel Good Job Need Work Yesterday
I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
AGNES VARDA

Career Film Made Thinking World
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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Art Boundaries Cinema Contemporary Critics Film Rigid Unbelievable
She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
AGNES VARDA

Almost Children Recite Recognize Suffering
I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
AGNES VARDA

Autodidact Aware Learn Some Sure Way Wish
I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
AGNES VARDA

Assistant Camera Film School Thinking Trainee
I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Crazy Film Maybe Stopped Stupid Young
I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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Adventure Always Find First Spring Trying
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
AGNES VARDA

All Camera Cat Computer Need
I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
AGNES VARDA

Explain Language Liked Mean Painting Picasso Reality Try Trying
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
AGNES VARDA

Answer Humor Joke Laughing Strong Themselves Weapon Women
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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Artist Hand Painter Tool
You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
AGNES VARDA

Always Eating Even Nothing Vagabonds Way World
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
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.
AGNES VARDA

Coffee Lot Nothing People Rosemary Trying Work
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

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