black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

Agnes Varda

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

Educated Nothing Part Shy Stupidity
I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
AGNES VARDA

Another Film Little Own Time Watch Watches
I don’t try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Film Filmmaker First History Make People Picture Place Trying
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.
AGNES VARDA

Draed Innocent Masterpiece Say Sometimes Start 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
If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.
AGNES VARDA

Enemy Felt Like Nothing Think Thinking Way Young
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.
AGNES VARDA

Abandoned Body Early Film Getting Gleaning Photo Picture
I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
AGNES VARDA

Adventure Always Find First Spring Trying
It’s nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It’s somewhere, but it’s sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
AGNES VARDA

Energy Nice Ourselves Sleep Sleeping Sometimes Somewhere Thinking
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
It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
AGNES VARDA

Enjoy Living People Seem Sharing Way Work
It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
AGNES VARDA

Boring Contradiction Country Lovely Myself Sound Subject Took
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
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
I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Expensive Jewelry Lost Service Tip
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

I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Varda Quotes