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
At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims. — Agnes Varda 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
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 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
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
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 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 call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
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 Being different Copy Share Image
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 Artist 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
I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those… — Agnes Varda Cinema Copy Share Image
I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of… — Agnes Varda Cinema Copy Share Image
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 Couple Copy Share Image
I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
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
You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous. — Agnes Varda Audience 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
I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time. — Agnes Varda Hate 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 think I was a feminist before being born. I had a feminist chromosome somewhere. — Agnes Varda Being 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
I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I was not raised with films. And when Alain Resnais did the editing on my first film, he said, 'You should go… — Agnes Varda Cinema Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy… — Agnes Varda Artist Copy Share Image
![“I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.” quote by Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10c/agnes-varda-3815_incredibles_i-call-ordinary-people-real-people-becau_2423337.jpg)
![“The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.” quote by Agnes Varda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/922/agnes-varda-3815_artist_the-freedom-he-gave-himself-to-work-and_2664116.png)