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
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.
two people black
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
people landscape ifs
If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
strong humor weapons
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
nice sleep thinking
It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
three cinema use
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.
feelings pasta cooks
You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
success
I had flops, I had success.
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.
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.
shy being-shy educated
I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
beautiful ideas joy
The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.