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 VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I’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.
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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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I’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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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.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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 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 I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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