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 VARDASome 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.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I didn’t see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn’t have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.
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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 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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I had a world. I don’t think I had a career. I made films.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don’t believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don’t want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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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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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.
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I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo – and I kept it all my life!
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