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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.

Agnes Varda

I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
AGNES VARDA

Film Ghouls Image Interested Looking Made Unless Woman
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.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Film Filmmaker First History Make People Picture Place Trying
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 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
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
AGNES VARDA

Another Buy Cook Feeling Good Pasta
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.
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Explain Language Liked Mean Painting Picasso Reality Try Trying
With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Casino Dealer Film Gambling Made Naked People Player Portrait Scene Surrealistic
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 see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
AGNES VARDA

Admire Help Learn School Shoot Something Student Trying Wish
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.
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Especially Filmmaking Saw Strong Woman
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
You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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Audience Fifty Four Getting Minute Much Nervous
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.
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Autodidact Aware Learn Some Sure Way Wish
It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Family Happen Living Long Process Travel Way
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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Allegory Another Mean More Need Shape Something Tell Vagabond

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