Agnes Varda Quotes

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

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.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

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.

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

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'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

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!

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

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.

It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

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.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

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!

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.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

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.

My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.

You have to invent life.

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

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 don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

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

I had flops, I had success.

I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.

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.

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

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.

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

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

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!