We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
AGNES VARDAI 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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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 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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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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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I’m interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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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In 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.
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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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You have to invent life.
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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’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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