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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.

Agnes Varda

I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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Career Film Made Thinking World
My grandson says I’m punk.
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Call Grandson Nickname Punk
I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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Family Need Nest Something Think Thinking
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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Always Film Giving Movie People Show Thing
I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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Capture Love People Regular Something Stories Story Try 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 was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
AGNES VARDA

Around Bowl Cut Cutting Fashion Nineteen Put Time
I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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Being Different Exactly People Something Trying Wish
It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Family Happen Living Long Process Travel Way
If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
AGNES VARDA

Enemy Felt Like Nothing Think Thinking Way Young
I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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Care Careful Different People Think Thinking
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.
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Explain Language Liked Mean Painting Picasso Reality Try Trying
The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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Mirror Portrait See Self You Yourself
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.
AGNES VARDA

Discover Incredible Interesting Ordinary People Real Stories Themselves Treasure Way
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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
AGNES VARDA

Melancholy Missing Nostalgia People Some

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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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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