"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. I started totally free and crazy and innocent. Now I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials, I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing."

Said Agnès Varda, quoted in "Agnès Varda, Influential French New Wave Filmmaker, Dies at 90" (NYT).

May I recommend "Cleo from 5 to 7"?