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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.

Agnes Varda

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

All Camera Cat Computer Need
I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
AGNES VARDA

Career Film Made Thinking World
I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
AGNES VARDA

Away Catch Consumption Documentary Eating Ethnography People Want Problem Serious Sociologie Subject Thinker Throw Wanted
But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
AGNES VARDA

Alone Inside Ourselves Revolt Road Something Way Women
Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
AGNES VARDA

Abandoned Body Early Film Getting Gleaning Photo Picture
My grandson says I’m punk.
AGNES VARDA

Call Grandson Nickname Punk
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
Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
AGNES VARDA

Bringing Everyday Memories Nostalgia Sense Special
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
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
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

Boring Contradiction Country Lovely Myself Sound Subject Took
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
Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
AGNES VARDA

Draed Innocent Masterpiece Say Sometimes Start Way
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
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 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

Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.

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