I've always loved polka dots. Ah, oui. It is a joyful shape, the polka dot. It is alive. Agnes Varda More Quotes by Agnes Varda More Quotes From Agnes Varda I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not. Agnes Varda knowingtryingpeople I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me. Agnes Varda storiestryingpeople 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. Agnes Varda gleaningfilmbody I 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 started totally free and crazy and innocent. Now 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 crazystupidbeautiful My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb. Agnes Varda rosemaryhotwater Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Agnes Varda humorstronganswers 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. Agnes Varda differentpeoplethinking There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi." It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. 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. Agnes Varda nicesongbeautiful When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently. Agnes Varda virginiapeopleyears 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. Agnes Varda possibilitypeopleinteresting 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. Agnes Varda colorwhitehair To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote. Agnes Varda blacktwopeople You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous. Agnes Varda fourtoo-muchfifty You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles. Agnes Varda strongdirectorsneeds I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film. Agnes Varda filmlittleswatches I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them. Agnes Varda saying-bad-thingswantpeople I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them. Agnes Varda watchesyearsneeds Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore. Agnes Varda boresfeminist Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life. Agnes Varda everydayspecialmemories I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring. Agnes Varda springtryingadventure
