I am small. I was always small. But only physically. Agnes Varda More Quotes by Agnes Varda More Quotes From Agnes Varda 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. Agnes Varda filmstupidmade You have to invent life. Agnes Varda I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away. Agnes Varda being-differentwishpeople 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. Agnes Varda cinemalongway 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. Agnes Varda portraitsmirrorsself 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. Agnes Varda joybeautifulideas We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. 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. Agnes Varda vagabondsmeanneeds 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. Agnes Varda enemywaythinking I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films. Agnes Varda careersworldthinking I've seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don't do commercials, I don't do films pre-prepared by other people, I don't do star system. So I do my own little thing. Agnes Varda starsbeautifulpeople I think we need to have a nest of something which is family. Agnes Varda nestsneedsthinking With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in '87. We had a casino scene, surrealistic, in which we had some naked people gambling. Jane Birkin was the card dealer and I was the player. I had beautiful jewelery around me, and when I lost I would take the jewelery and say, Service - being very generous, because it was very expensive jewelery. I would say, Tip. Agnes Varda gamblingplayerbeautiful I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever. Agnes Varda moviecinemaforever People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans. Agnes Varda believechildrenthinking I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject. Agnes Varda serious-subjectswantpeople 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. I tried to find images, allegorical images, that I could use to express things that I didn't want to say or didn't want to show or I was not able to find how to show. Agnes Varda drysquaresuse I had flops, I had success. Agnes Varda success You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling. Agnes Varda pastacooksfeelings 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. Agnes Varda blueinspirationalbelieve 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 think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade. Agnes Varda filmsometimesthinking
