Agnes Varda
Agnes Varda
Agnès Vardais a Belgian film director. Her films, photographs, and art installations focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary with a distinct experimental style...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 May 1928
CountryFrance
dancer singers might
If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.
You have to invent life.
art film-critics cinema
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 know my films.
feminist bores
Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
people missing nostalgia
I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
people trying cinema
I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
cutting hair people
I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.
people important ive-changed
I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.
mirrors self needs
The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
thinking careers world
I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.
want nostalgia sometimes
Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.
white-hair color punk
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.
knowing people trying
I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.
heart people interesting
I had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting.