black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Agnes Varda

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.
AGNES VARDA

Being Different Exactly People Something Trying Wish
People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
AGNES VARDA

Connection Established Film People Understand
My grandson says I’m punk.
AGNES VARDA

Call Grandson Nickname Punk
I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
AGNES VARDA

Deal Image Mean Need Reality Representation Time Use
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
AGNES VARDA

Another Buy Cook Feeling Good Pasta
I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
AGNES VARDA

Care Careful Different People Think Thinking
The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
AGNES VARDA

Art Boundaries Cinema Contemporary Critics Film Rigid Unbelievable
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.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Expensive Jewelry Lost Service Tip
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.
AGNES VARDA

Able Allegorical Express Find Image Say Saying Show Thing Wanted
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.
AGNES VARDA

Dry Edit Les Make Minimum More Plage Refined Saying Square Use Way Well
People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
AGNES VARDA

Always Couple Especially Fragile Happen More Story Thirty Year
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.
AGNES VARDA

Especially Filmmaking Saw Strong Woman
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.
AGNES VARDA

Energy Nice Ourselves Sleep Sleeping Sometimes Somewhere Thinking
It’s a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It’s a long process to let it happen.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Family Happen Living Long Process Travel Way
The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
AGNES VARDA

Art Artwork Critic Film Know Time
I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Film Filmmaker First History Make People Picture Place Trying

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Varda Quotes