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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.

Agnes Varda

I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
AGNES VARDA

Alive Cinema Fighting Hope Struggle
I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
AGNES VARDA

Arrive Belief Blue Bolt Inspiration Inspirational
I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
AGNES VARDA

Always Could Film Free Money Sometimes Thinking Work
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
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 live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Fel Forever Here Loved Movie
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
AGNES VARDA

Find Landscape Opened People
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
If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
AGNES VARDA

Enemy Felt Like Nothing Think Thinking Way Young
I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
AGNES VARDA

All Hate Myself Nothing Repeat Time
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
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
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
AGNES VARDA

Allegory Another Mean More Need Shape Something Tell Vagabond
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
You have to invent life.
AGNES VARDA

Discover Invent Life
I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
AGNES VARDA

Educated Nothing Part Shy Stupidity

She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.

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