Agnes Varda Quotes

At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!

I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.

I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.

It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.

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.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

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.

I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

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.

Happiness is a beautiful fruit that tastes of cruelty.