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
people important ive-changed
I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.
thinking careers world
I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.
want nostalgia sometimes
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.
white-hair color punk
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.
knowing people trying
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.
heart people interesting
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.
thinking people film
I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
men thinking looks
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.
real grandmother twenties
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.
school trying wish
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.
way sometimes innocent
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.
coffee people trying
I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
war men streets-of-paris
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.
thinking enemy way
If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.