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 VARDAPeople like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don’t want time to come back.
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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 should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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 never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.
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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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My grandson says I’m punk.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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I’ve seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don’t do commercials,
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work.
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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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