black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I go back to many films that I really love.

Agnes Varda

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn’t need to have muscles.
AGNES VARDA

Carpenter Direct Director Film Muscle Need Strong
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
AGNES VARDA

Allegory Another Mean More Need Shape Something Tell Vagabond
There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Celebrity Country Gainsbourg Impossible Nice People Sang Song Sound Translate Word
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.
AGNES VARDA

Make Mirror Need One Photo Portrait Self Tool
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.
AGNES VARDA

Contemporary Country Done Last Literature Painting People Saw Strongly Theatre Virginia Year
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
AGNES VARDA

Always Couple Cuple Especially Fragile More Over Strong Thirty Year
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
AGNES VARDA

Bore Feminist Slow Society
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.
AGNES VARDA

Being Different Exactly People Something Trying Wish
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
AGNES VARDA

Black Change History People Right Slow State Two Vote
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.
AGNES VARDA

Alone Brother Courageous Much Photographer Thinking Way Worked
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.
AGNES VARDA

Enemy Felt Like Nothing Think Thinking Way Young
I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
AGNES VARDA

Confidence Film Insect Looking Movie People Thinking
I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
AGNES VARDA

Adventure Always Find First Spring Trying
Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I’d seen a bad one, I’d feel, “Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.”
AGNES VARDA

Bad Better Film God Good One Yesterday
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
AGNES VARDA

Find Landscape Opened People
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!
AGNES VARDA

Beautiful Film Filmmaker Finished Made Started Wanted

I go back to many films that I really love.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I go back to many films that I really love.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Agnes Varda Quotes