I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
AGNES VARDAThe film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I see all these students, and I admire them – they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help.
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Nostalgia doesn’t make sense, because it’s like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I’m inside my memories the same way I’m inside my everyday life.
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I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service – being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip.
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I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.
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You have to invent life.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
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I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I’m missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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I don’t watch my own films. There is little time; I’d rather see another film.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more.
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An old woman I loved very much when I was young – the wife of Jean Villard – she’s just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That’s all she does.
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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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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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