I go back to many films that I really love.
AGNES VARDAI’m not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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People like my films. They understand me through my films; it’s like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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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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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.
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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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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start. I started very – not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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It’s interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves – not so much to learn about me.
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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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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!
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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was – that’s the way I was – autodidact.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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 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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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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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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure – stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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I’m not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman – not unless she is looking for new images.
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I tried to find a language for the film – not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain.
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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It’s my white hair, and I put color there.
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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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