black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!

Agnes Varda

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.
AGNES VARDA

Autodidact Aware Learn Some Sure Way Wish
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 tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
AGNES VARDA

Mirror Portrait See Self You Yourself
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
You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
AGNES VARDA

Always Eating Even Nothing Vagabonds Way World
I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
AGNES VARDA

Confidence Film Insect Looking Movie People Thinking
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
AGNES VARDA

All Camera Cat Computer Need
I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Fel Forever Here Loved Movie
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 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.
AGNES VARDA

Always Could Film Free Money Sometimes Thinking Work
When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Country Different Director Film First High Jump Language Pole Started Three Women
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.
AGNES VARDA

Arrive Belief Blue Bolt Inspiration Inspirational
Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
AGNES VARDA

Documentary Every Line Fiction Science Texture True
Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Essential Feel Good Job Need Work Yesterday
I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
AGNES VARDA

Boxing Competition Cross Kung Fu Learned Ocean Sportif Strong Thinking
I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
AGNES VARDA

Adapted Anything Beautiful Book never Transform

I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Varda Quotes