I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you're in the street, listening to people, you're forced to be in the service of your subject. Agnes Varda More Quotes by Agnes Varda More Quotes From Agnes Varda 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. Agnes Varda movie giving people If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. Agnes Varda landscape ifs people The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world . Agnes Varda portraits mirrors self This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat. Agnes Varda cameras cat needs You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed. Agnes Varda vagabonds way world 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. Agnes Varda cinema fighting struggle 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. Agnes Varda humor strong laughing Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist. Agnes Varda tools artist hands I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images. Agnes Varda film ghouls made 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! Agnes Varda film should beautiful I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle. Agnes Varda feminism speak struggle 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. Agnes Varda three different directors 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. Agnes Varda cameras school thinking I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. 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. Agnes Varda trying mean reality 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. Agnes Varda mean people ideas 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." Agnes Varda yesterday jobs needs An old woman I loved very much when I was young - the wife of Jean Villard - she's just reciting poetry all the time, which is beautiful because it means she went back to the world of poetry that she loved when she was young. That's all she does - she almost doesn't recognize her children, but she recites Valéry and Baudelaire. So what? We're the ones who are suffering. She's not. Agnes Varda beautiful mean children 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! Agnes Varda nineteen fashion cutting 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. Agnes Varda nice sleep thinking I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little. Agnes Varda real people interesting
