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
tools want needs
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.
different persons
I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
people important ive-changed
I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.
mirrors self needs
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.
dancer singers might
If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.
You have to invent life.
art film-critics cinema
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.
feminist bores
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
beautiful stars people
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.
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.
believe thinking peaceful
It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.
people way enjoy
It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
strong couple years
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.
body gleaning film
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.