I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDASome 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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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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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.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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