black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
AGNES VARDA

Away Catch Consumption Documentary Eating Ethnography People Want Problem Serious Sociologie Subject Thinker Throw Wanted
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 VARDA

Beautiful Certain Film Keep Level Many People Quality Star
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
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.
AGNES VARDA

Bresson Cassavetes Early Film Godard Love Need Some Time Unless Watch
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
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
AGNES VARDA

Black Change History People Right Slow State Two Vote
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.
AGNES VARDA

Always Film Giving Movie People Show Thing
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.”
AGNES VARDA

Bad Better Film God Good One Yesterday
I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
AGNES VARDA

Bad People Saying Seeing Some Thing Women
I had flops, I had success.
AGNES VARDA

Down Flop Success Up
I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
AGNES VARDA

Cheat Color Hair Hated Myself Totally White
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.
AGNES VARDA

Assistant Camera Film School Thinking Trainee
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
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
AGNES VARDA

Always Couple Cuple Especially Fragile More Over Strong Thirty Year
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

Answer Humor Joke Laughing Strong Themselves Weapon Women
People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
AGNES VARDA

Believe Children Feel Old Orphan People Person Thinking

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Varda Quotes