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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

Agnes Varda

You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
AGNES VARDA

Always Eating Even Nothing Vagabonds Way World
I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Fel Forever Here Loved Movie
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
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 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’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
AGNES VARDA

Capture Love People Regular Something Stories Story Try Trying
My grandson says I’m punk.
AGNES VARDA

Call Grandson Nickname Punk
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 know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
AGNES VARDA

Audience Fifty Four Getting Minute Much Nervous
Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
AGNES VARDA

Bad Better Film God Good One Yesterday
I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
AGNES VARDA

Alone Brother Courageous Much Photographer Thinking Way Worked
I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
AGNES VARDA

Boxing Competition Cross Kung Fu Learned Ocean Sportif Strong Thinking
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
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
AGNES VARDA

Always Film Giving Movie People Show Thing
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
I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
AGNES VARDA

Adventure Always Find First Spring Trying

I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

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