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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.

Agnes Varda

Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
AGNES VARDA

Ahead Filmmaker Little Made Many Resurgent Time
I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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Especially Filmmaking Saw Strong Woman
I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Film Filmmaker First History Make People Picture Place Trying
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 go back to many films that I really love.
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Film Love Need Really Watches Year
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.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Country Different Director Film First High Jump Language Pole Started Three Women
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
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
AGNES VARDA

Find Landscape Opened People
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
AGNES VARDA

All Camera Cat Computer Need
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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Contemporary Country Done Last Literature Painting People Saw Strongly Theatre Virginia Year
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

Bad Better Film God Good One Yesterday
You have to invent life.
AGNES VARDA

Discover Invent Life
People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
AGNES VARDA

Connection Established Film People Understand
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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Beautiful Book Find Good List Novel Star Thing Year
I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
AGNES VARDA

Career Film Made Thinking World
I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
AGNES VARDA

Educated Nothing Part Shy Stupidity

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