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,
AGNES VARDAAn old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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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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’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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You have to invent life.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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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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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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