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.
AGNES VARDAI had flops, I had success.
More Agnes Varda Quotes
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That’s my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I had flops, I had success.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I didn’t have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal – because I think cinema should come from cinema.
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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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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 saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done – people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway – in France we have Nathalie Sarraute – and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater.
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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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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing.
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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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To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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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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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 have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.
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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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I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
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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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The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.
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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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It’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.
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Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just saying the minimum. I said, Well, if this is the minimum, I don’t make it. So I tried to make it more refined.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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