I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
AGNES VARDAI 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!
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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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’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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.
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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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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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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’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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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 tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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You have to invent life.
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