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
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.
war party exhibitions
The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.
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.
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.
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.
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.