Agnes Varda

Aging for me is not a condition but a subject.

— Agnes Varda

I had flops, I had success.

— Agnes Varda

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

— Agnes Varda

You have to invent life.

— Agnes Varda

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

— Agnes Varda

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

— Agnes Varda

I am small. I was always small. But only physically.

— Agnes Varda

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

— Agnes Varda

I've always loved polka dots. Ah, oui. It is a joyful shape, the polka dot. It is alive.

— Agnes Varda

I enjoy the time passing. I think it's a privilege to be in friendship with time.

— Agnes Varda

Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!

— Agnes Varda

I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.

— Agnes Varda

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!

— Agnes Varda

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

— Agnes Varda

I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated…

— Agnes Varda

My father was Greek, but he turned French during the war, and my mother was French. So I'm French, but I have…

— Agnes Varda

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not…

— Agnes Varda

I was not raised with films. And when Alain Resnais did the editing on my first film, he said, 'You should go…

— Agnes Varda

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy…

— Agnes Varda

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

— Agnes Varda

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they…

— Agnes Varda

I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because…

— Agnes Varda

I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of…

— Agnes Varda

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those…

— Agnes Varda

The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even…

— Agnes Varda

I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now…

— Agnes Varda

I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film…

— Agnes Varda

I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way…

— Agnes Varda

I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in…

— Agnes Varda

I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves…

— Agnes Varda

I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn't cross the ocean.…

— Agnes Varda

With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in…

— Agnes Varda

I didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had…

— Agnes Varda

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

— Agnes Varda

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

— Agnes Varda

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

— Agnes Varda

It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.

— Agnes Varda

It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.

— Agnes Varda

Sometimes I do things that are not really the right way because I'm daring, in a way.

— Agnes Varda

I think I was a feminist before being born. I had a feminist chromosome somewhere.

— Agnes Varda