I’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
AGNES VARDAIn 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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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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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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about 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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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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An 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.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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