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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

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
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
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
AGNES VARDA

Answer Humor Strong Such Thinking Weapon
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
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
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
AGNES VARDA

Art Boundaries Cinema Contemporary Critics Film Rigid Unbelievable
I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
AGNES VARDA

Care Careful Different People Think Thinking
My grandson says I’m punk.
AGNES VARDA

Call Grandson Nickname Punk
I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
AGNES VARDA

Bed Documentary Idea Knowing People Speak Speaking Telling Trying Wonderful
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 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 film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
AGNES VARDA

Art Artwork Critic Film Know Time
I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
AGNES VARDA

Autodidact Aware Learn Some Sure Way Wish
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
Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
AGNES VARDA

Ahead Filmmaker Little Made Many Resurgent Time
Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
AGNES VARDA

Documentary Every Line Fiction Science Texture True

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.

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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.

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