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 VARDAWith Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. – a portrait I made in ’87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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.
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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’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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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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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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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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 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.
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