Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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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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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.
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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 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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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’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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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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With 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.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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