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.
AGNES VARDAIt’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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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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We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.
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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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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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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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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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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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