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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

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
There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Celebrity Country Gainsbourg Impossible Nice People Sang Song Sound Translate Word
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
I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
AGNES VARDA

Afraid Doing Look Ridiculous Risk Such Take Wished
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

Cinema Film Filmmaker First History Make People Picture Place Trying
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
I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Book Find Good List Novel Star Thing Year
It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
AGNES VARDA

Interesting Life People Possibility Relate Tell Themselves
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
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 had flops, I had success.
AGNES VARDA

Down Flop Success Up
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 not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
AGNES VARDA

Back Memories Memory Mind Nostalgic
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

Able Allegorical Express Find Image Say Saying Show Thing Wanted
I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Fel Forever Here Loved Movie

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