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.
AGNES VARDAIt’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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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 think people should be different. I love people who don’t go by the rule that you have to be careful because you’re old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.
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Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don’t watch, unless I need them.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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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.
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She almost doesn’t recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We’re the ones who are suffering. She’s not.
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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It’s just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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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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You have to invent life.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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 quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don’t even want to meet them or see them.
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