Agnes Varda

I had flops, I had success.

— Agnes Varda

Aging for me is not a condition but a subject.

— Agnes Varda

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

— Agnes Varda

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

— Agnes Varda

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

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You have to invent life.

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

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

— Agnes Varda

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

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

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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.

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

— Agnes Varda

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

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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the…

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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…

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It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it…

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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the…

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Maybe something that amuses the Americans is that they are so worried about age, and I'm not at all.

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I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.

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I wore black until I was twenty-five, like many young people. Everybody did. It was crazy! But now, getting older, I think…

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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going…

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When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing - James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had…

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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in…

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I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But…

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When I did the first edit of Les plages, it was very dry and very square in a way. I was just…

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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's…

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Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be…

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I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It's like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working:…

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

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

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

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

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

— 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.

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

— Agnes Varda

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

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

— Agnes Varda

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

— Agnes Varda