Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
AGNES VARDAIf we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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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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 call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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It’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.
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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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I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.
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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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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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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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I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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