Agnes Varda
Agnes Varda
Agnès Vardais a Belgian film director. Her films, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary with a distinct experimental style...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 May 1928
CountryFrance
artist hands tools
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
strong humor laughing
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.
movie giving people
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.
cat cameras needs
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
mirrors self tools
The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
beautiful children mean
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.
struggle fighting cinema
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.
film made not-interested
I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.
people trying stories
I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
beautiful song nice
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.
water rosemary herbs
My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.
real people interesting
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.
beautiful player gambling
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.
struggle feminism speak
I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.