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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

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
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
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
AGNES VARDA

Find Landscape Opened People
I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
AGNES VARDA

Confidence Film Insect Looking Movie People Thinking
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
AGNES VARDA

Answer Humor Joke Laughing Strong Themselves Weapon Women
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
I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
AGNES VARDA

Differently Make Relate Something Thing Time
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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Artist Hand Painter Tool
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
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 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
My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
AGNES VARDA

Call Cine Company Herb Hot Rosemary Speed Tamaris Water
My grandson says I’m punk.
AGNES VARDA

Call Grandson Nickname Punk
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
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
People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
AGNES VARDA

Connection Established Film People Understand

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.

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