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 VARDAI wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
-
-
I don’t do films pre-prepared by other people, I don’t do star system. So I do my own little thing.
AGNES VARDA -
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
AGNES VARDA -
I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
AGNES VARDA -
We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
AGNES VARDA -
I had flops, I had success.
AGNES VARDA -
Even Vagabond – it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
AGNES VARDA -
The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
AGNES VARDA -
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
AGNES VARDA -
I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
AGNES VARDA -
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.
AGNES VARDA -
I think it’s ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do.
AGNES VARDA -
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 -
I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
AGNES VARDA -
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
AGNES VARDA -
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.
AGNES VARDA