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.
AGNES VARDAI’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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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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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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Some 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.
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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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’m trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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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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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.
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You have to invent life.
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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 don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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I had flops, I had success.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn’t cross the ocean.
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