black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

Agnes Varda

I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
AGNES VARDA

Film Little Other Own People Pre-Prepared Star System Thing
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
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
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.
AGNES VARDA

Almost Children Recite Recognize Suffering
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
AGNES VARDA

Bore Feminist Slow Society
I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
AGNES VARDA

Educated Nothing Part Shy Stupidity
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.
AGNES VARDA

Alone Inside Ourselves Revolt Road Something Way Women
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
I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
AGNES VARDA

Back Memories Memory Mind Nostalgic
I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
AGNES VARDA

Admire Help Learn School Shoot Something Student Trying Wish
I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Crazy Film Maybe Stopped Stupid Young
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
When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
AGNES VARDA

Contemporary Country Done Last Literature Painting People Saw Strongly Theatre Virginia Year
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 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.
AGNES VARDA

Discover Incredible Interesting Ordinary People Real Stories Themselves Treasure Way
Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
AGNES VARDA

Ahead Filmmaker Little Made Many Resurgent Time

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Varda Quotes