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 trying stories
I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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.
mean reality trying
I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.
thinking people different
I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
struggle feminism speak
I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.
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.
cat cameras needs
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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.
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.
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.
artist hands tools
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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.
water rosemary herbs
My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.