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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

Agnes Varda

The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
AGNES VARDA

Make Mirror Need One Photo Portrait Self Tool
You have to invent life.
AGNES VARDA

Discover Invent Life
When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
AGNES VARDA

Dry Edit Les Make Minimum More Plage Refined Saying Square Use Way Well
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
AGNES VARDA

Black Change History People Right Slow State Two Vote
I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
AGNES VARDA

Coffee Lot Nothing People Rosemary Trying Work
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.
AGNES VARDA

Especially Filmmaking Saw Strong Woman
I had flops, I had success.
AGNES VARDA

Down Flop Success Up
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 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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
AGNES VARDA

Melancholy Missing Nostalgia People Some
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
I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
AGNES VARDA

Assistant Camera Film School Thinking Trainee
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
AGNES VARDA

All Camera Cat Computer Need
I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
AGNES VARDA

Educated Nothing Part Shy Stupidity
I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
AGNES VARDA

Back Memories Memory Mind Nostalgic
I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
AGNES VARDA

Cheat Color Hair Hated Myself Totally White

I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

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I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.

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