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.
AGNES VARDAGood cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 go back to many films that I really love.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don’t have to be strong.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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You have to invent life.
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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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