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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.

Agnes Varda

I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
AGNES VARDA

Career Film Made Thinking World
My grandson says I’m punk.
AGNES VARDA

Call Grandson Nickname Punk
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
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
An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Children Loved Mean Old People Poetry Reciting Time Wife Woman
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
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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
AGNES VARDA

Adapted Anything Beautiful Book never Transform
I go back to many films that I really love.
AGNES VARDA

Film Love Need Really Watches Year
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
We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
AGNES VARDA

Among Like Look Trying Well Without
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
AGNES VARDA

Always Couple Cuple Especially Fragile More Over Strong Thirty Year
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
I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
AGNES VARDA

Another Film Little Own Time Watch Watches
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
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

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