Agnes Varda Quotes

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.

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.

I’ve always been like this – trying to find adventure where it’s still in its first élan – the first spring.

People know it’s not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn’t always happen.

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

My grandson says I’m punk.

I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.

I’d been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that’s part of being shy.

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It’s like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high – you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

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.