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.
AGNES VARDAIn 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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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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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 invent life.
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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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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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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It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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