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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!

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, Should
Source: www.believermag.com

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

Agnes Varda
Ghouls, Film, Made
Agnès Varda, T. Jefferson Kline (2013). “Agnès Varda: Interviews”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

Agnes Varda
Gleaning, Body, Film
Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

Agnes Varda
Watches, Littles, Film
Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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
People, Connections, Film
Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

Agnes Varda
Thinking, People, Film
Source: www.believermag.com

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. I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.

Agnes Varda
Thinking, Sometimes, Film
Source: film.avclub.com

I just 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
Stupid, Film, Made
Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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