I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
AGNES VARDAI’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
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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.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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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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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.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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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.
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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 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.
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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 think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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.
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