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.
AGNES VARDAGood cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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 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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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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’m myself – knowing I’m doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers.
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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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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 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 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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