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 More Quotes by Agnes Varda More Quotes From Agnes Varda 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. Agnes Varda innocent sometimes way 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. Agnes Varda grandmother twenties real I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust. Agnes Varda streets-of-paris men war I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy. Agnes Varda being-shy educated shy I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't. Agnes Varda strong men war I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally. Agnes Varda doe men thinking I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy. Agnes Varda nostalgia missing people I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important. Agnes Varda ive-changed important people 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. Agnes Varda connections film people 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. Agnes Varda cinema film-critics art I cannot say something different to one person and then another. Agnes Varda different persons If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer. Agnes Varda dancer singers blonde 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. Agnes Varda tools want needs 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. Agnes Varda cutting hair people I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time. Agnes Varda i-hate hate should Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back. Agnes Varda nostalgia want sometimes I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time. Agnes Varda cinema trying people I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film. Agnes Varda film people thinking It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families. Agnes Varda peaceful believe thinking I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting. Agnes Varda heart people interesting
