I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn’t want to say or didn’t want to show or I was not able to find how to show.
AGNES VARDAI’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,
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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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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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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Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
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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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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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.
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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.
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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 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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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.
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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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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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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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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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