I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
AGNES VARDASometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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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.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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.
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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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.
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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.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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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.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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