I said I was not nostalgic because what’s the point? I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind. If you remember the last sentence in my film, I say, “I’ll remember while I’m alive.” Do you remember that? I’m sitting with my brooms around me. Because you know in France, a broom means age, so I’m sitting with 80 brooms. Did you get that? And when I’m sitting with my brooms, I said, well, life is a strange thing. But I’ll remember it while I’m living. So 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. I am sometimes melancholy, which is not the same. Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.

Agnès Varda, “Interview.” in: A.V. Club. June 30, 2009. (English).

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