The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
AGNES VARDAThis is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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,
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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