It’s a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
AGNES VARDAThe boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It’s unbelievable.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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I’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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 wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn’t want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.
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I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States – black people didn’t have the right to vote.
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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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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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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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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, “Le jeu et les moi.” It’s impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound.
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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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