You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling. — Agnes Varda Comfort food Copy Share Image
My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb. — Agnes Varda Business Copy Share Image
I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film. — Agnes Varda Cinema Copy Share Image
You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous. — Agnes Varda Audience Copy Share Image
I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time. — Agnes Varda Hate Copy Share Image
The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I… — Agnes Varda Cinema Copy Share Image
Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but… — Agnes Varda Artist Copy Share Image
When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when… — Agnes Varda Beautiful Copy Share Image
I don't want to become a serious, annoying sociologist. I try to regard sociology as a part of everyday life. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take… — Agnes Varda Coffee Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I wore black until I was twenty-five, like many young people. Everybody did. It was crazy! But now, getting older, I think… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said… — Agnes Varda Cinema Copy Share Image
You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in… — Agnes Varda Eating Copy Share Image
I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's… — Agnes Varda Cinema Copy Share Image
Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working:… — Agnes Varda Documentaries Copy Share Image
When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing - James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had… — Agnes Varda Cinema Copy Share Image
I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I didn't see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman. — Agnes Varda Cinema Copy Share Image
I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy. — Agnes Varda Being shy Copy Share Image
At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Maybe something that amuses the Americans is that they are so worried about age, and I'm not at all. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
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… — Agnes Varda Alive Copy Share Image
I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an… — Agnes Varda Ancestor Copy Share Image
