Latest Agnes Varda Quotes from Interviews

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• 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

  Beautiful, Crazy, Stupid

  Source: film.avclub.com

• 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

• 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.

• 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

  Mirrors, Self, Portraits

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

• If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

  Agnes Varda

  Dancer, Blonde, Singers

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

• You have to invent life.

  Agnes Varda

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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'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.

• 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.

• 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.

• You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

  Agnes Varda

  Feelings, Pasta, Cooks

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

• 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

  Needs, Tools, Want

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

• I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Important, I've Changed

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

• I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Missing, Nostalgia

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

• 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

  Mirrors, Self, Portraits

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

• Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

  Agnes Varda

  Want, Nostalgia, Sometimes

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

• I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

  Agnes Varda

  Memories, Mind, Nostalgic

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

• 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

  Memories, Everyday, Special

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

• 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.

• I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

  Agnes Varda

  Struggle, Feminism, Speak

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

• I've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.

  Agnes Varda

  Spring, Adventure, Trying

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

• Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

  Agnes Varda

  Feminist, Bores

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