Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
AGNES VARDAMy grandson says I’m punk.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I 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.
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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 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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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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’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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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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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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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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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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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