I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
AGNES VARDAYou have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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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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I go back to many films that I really love.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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I’m still fighting. I don’t know how much longer, but I’m still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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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 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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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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I 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.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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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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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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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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