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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
Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Essential Feel Good Job Need Work Yesterday
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 had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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Career Film Made Thinking World
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
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
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
AGNES VARDA

Back Come Feel Nostalgia Sometimes Time Want
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
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
To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
AGNES VARDA

Emotion Idea Life Looking Lot Mean People Share
I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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Differently Make Relate Something Thing 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.
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Documentary Every Line Fiction Science Texture True
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

Almost Children Recite Recognize Suffering
When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Country Different Director Film First High Jump Language Pole Started Three Women
I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Expensive Jewelry Lost Service Tip
I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
AGNES VARDA

Film Little Other Own People Pre-Prepared Star System Thing

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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