--- title: "10 Made Quotes By Agnes Varda" description: "10 Made quotes by Agnes Varda. Plus more from Agnes Varda and more Made sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a81/agnes-varda-3815_career_i-didn-t-have-a-career-i-made-films-it-s_1026520.png" --- > [I didn't have a career; I made films. It's very different.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-didn-t-have-a-career-i-made-films-it-s-very-different/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a81/agnes-varda-3815_career_i-didn-t-have-a-career-i-made-films-it-s_1026520.png) > [I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-m-not-interested-in-seeing-a-film-just-made-by-a-woman-not-unless/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a86/agnes-varda-3815_cinema_i-m-not-interested-in-seeing-a-film-just_1170598.png) > [I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-had-a-world-i-don-t-think-i-had-a-career-i-made-films/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/agnes-varda-3815_career_i-had-a-world-i-don-t-think-i-had-a-care_245134.png) > [I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-waited-for-each-film-to-become-important-for-me-if-i-had-no-ideas/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/112/agnes-varda-3815_cinema_i-waited-for-each-film-to-become-importa_1500181.png) > [I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-made-a-braid-because-chinese-old-people-they-say-that-the-god-will/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40c/agnes-varda-3815_braids_i-made-a-braid-because-chinese-old-peopl_740748.jpg) > [I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-just-didn-t-see-films-when-i-was-young-i-was-stupid-and-na-ve-maybe/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fec/agnes-varda-3815_cinema_i-just-didn-t-see-films-when-i-was-young_1086074.png) > [When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/when-i-started-i-did-not-know-i-wanted-to-be-a-filmmaker-i-started-i/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b41/agnes-varda-3815_beautiful_when-i-started-i-did-not-know-i-wanted-t_1394778.png) > [We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/we-need-to-find-another-way-or-another-shape-or-an-allegory-or/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/71e/agnes-varda-3815_allegory_we-need-to-find-another-way-or-another-s_1004940.jpg) > [With Jane Birkin, we had a scene from a film called Jane B. by Agnès V. - a portrait I made in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/with-jane-birkin-we-had-a-scene-from-a-film-called-jane-b-by-agn-s-v/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d5/agnes-varda-3815_beautiful_with-jane-birkin-we-had-a-scene-from-a-f_2778995.jpg) > [I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-don-t-try-to-make-a-place-in-history-at-all-people-put-me-in-the/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/999/agnes-varda-3815_cinema_i-don-t-try-to-make-a-place-in-history-a_2688676.png) ## Other authors on Made ## More by Agnes Varda > [I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-wasn-t-attracted-to-american-cinema-but-i-fell-in-love-with-los/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-hated-myself-totally-white-so-now-i-cheat-it-s-my-white-hair-and-i/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/the-boundaries-between-contemporary-art-and-cinema-are-so-rigid-it-s/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) > [I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-was-nineteen-and-i-put-a-bowl-on-and-i-said-cut-around-because-it/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) > [I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-see-all-these-students-and-i-admire-them-they-re-trying-to-learn/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) > [I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I'm alone,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-was-free-always-i-could-work-without-the-money-to-film-this-and/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) > [I am small. I was always small. But only physically.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-am-small-i-was-always-small-but-only-physically/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) > [When I love somebody, I cannot drop it out of my life. Love is not something like you open and you close, you know?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/when-i-love-somebody-i-cannot-drop-it-out-of-my-life-love-is-not/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 his studio.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-never-met-publo-picasso-i-took-pictures-at-the-festival-d-avignon/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) > [I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-had-a-world-i-don-t-think-i-had-a-career-i-made-films/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) > [I saw 'Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs' when it came out, didn't like it too much. I found she was stupid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-saw-snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs-when-it-came-out-didn-t-like-it/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) > [You have to invent life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/you-have-to-invent-life/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-m-still-fighting-i-don-t-know-how-much-longer-but-i-m-still/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) > [ The first exhibition \[Publo Picasso\] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/the-first-exhibition-publo-picasso-was-organized-by-the-communist/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) > [I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agnes-varda/i-was-a-photographer-first-i-worked-alone-i-did-it-my-way-as-much-as/) [Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agnes-varda/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/made/agnes-varda/#itemlist", "name": "10 Made Quotes By Agnes Varda", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I didn't have a career; I made films. 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