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Agnes Varda

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
I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
AGNES VARDA

All Hate Myself Nothing Repeat Time
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.
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Cinema Country Different Director Film First High Jump Language Pole Started Three Women
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
When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Film Filmmaker Finished Made Started Wanted
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
You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
AGNES VARDA

Audience Fifty Four Getting Minute Much Nervous
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
AGNES VARDA

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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
AGNES VARDA

Deal Image Mean Need Reality Representation Time Use
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 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

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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
AGNES VARDA

Mirror Portrait See Self You Yourself
I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
AGNES VARDA

Alive Cinema Fighting Hope Struggle
I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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Back Memories Memory Mind Nostalgic
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 seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Certain Film Keep Level Many People Quality Star

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