I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
AGNES VARDAWhen 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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 call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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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!
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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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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