RIP, Agnès Varda. Here are some quotes from the superb filmmaker.

“I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.”

“[N]ostalgia 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.”

“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.”

“I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.”

“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, you know?”

“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. If we opened me up, we’d find beaches.”

“This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.”

“I try to break the barrier, break the border, and give freedom to film and allow myself to show the painting in the middle.”

“You have to invent life.”

“In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.”

“I was free always.”

“Memory is like sand in my hand”