black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Agnes Varda

You have to invent life.
AGNES VARDA

Discover Invent Life
I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
AGNES VARDA

Family Need Nest Something Think Thinking
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.
AGNES VARDA

Being Different Exactly People Something Trying Wish
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
AGNES VARDA

Black Change History People Right Slow State Two Vote
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
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
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
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
AGNES VARDA

Always Film Giving Movie People Show Thing
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.
AGNES VARDA

Documentary Every Line Fiction Science Texture True
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.
AGNES VARDA

Cinema Country Different Director Film First High Jump Language Pole Started Three Women
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 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
People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
AGNES VARDA

Always Couple Especially Fragile Happen More Story Thirty Year
I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
AGNES VARDA

All Hate Myself Nothing Repeat Time
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
AGNES VARDA

Answer Humor Strong Such Thinking Weapon
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

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Varda Quotes