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
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.
thinking people film
I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
littles watches film
I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.
beautiful film should
When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!
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.
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.
years ideas important
I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.
vagabonds world way
You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
strong directors needs
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
You have to invent life.
feminist bores
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
people missing nostalgia
I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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.