I go back to many films that I really love.
AGNES VARDAMy grandson says I’m punk.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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You have to invent life.
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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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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 got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue … It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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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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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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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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started – I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it’s so beautiful – I should be a filmmaker!
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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 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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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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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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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