Agnes Varda Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• 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

  School, Thinking, Cameras

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

• 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

  Beautiful, Film, Should

  Source: www.believermag.com

• 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, People, Giving

• 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

  Beautiful, Player, Gambling

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

• 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

  Stupid, Film, Made

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

• I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.

  Agnes Varda

  Thinking, Careers, World

  Source: www.believermag.com

• 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

  Mean, Reality, Trying

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

• 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

  Beautiful, Stars, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

• 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

  People, Trying, Cinema

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

• I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

  Agnes Varda

  Thinking, People, Film

  Source: www.believermag.com

• 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

  Jobs, Yesterday, Needs

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

• You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

  Agnes Varda

  Strong, Directors, Needs

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

• 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

  Years, Watches, Needs

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

• 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

  Directors, Different, Three

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

• I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

  Agnes Varda

  School, Trying, Wish

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

  Agnes Varda

  Watches, Littles, Film

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

• 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.

  Agnes Varda

  Years, Ideas, Important

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

• 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

  Struggle, Fighting, Cinema

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

• 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

  Art, Film Critics, Cinema

  Interview with Liza Bear, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

• 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

  Inspirational, Believe, Blue

• I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film every year. Some people have done fifty or sixty films.

  Agnes Varda

  Thinking, Years, Long

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

• 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

  Thinking, Sometimes, Film

  Source: film.avclub.com

• I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

  Agnes Varda

  Ghouls, Film, Made

  Agnès Varda, T. Jefferson Kline (2013). “Agnès Varda: Interviews”, p.89, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• 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

  Gleaning, Body, Film

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

• 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

  People, Connections, Film

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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