I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
AGNES VARDAWe got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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 wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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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 think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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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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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 was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn’t think I should do less than my brothers.
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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.
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