Agnes Varda Quotes

Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.

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.

If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that’s the way I felt when I was young.

It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradiction.

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that’s it. I don’t know why we should transform them.

I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I’m alone, and I can just use it when I want.

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.

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.

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.