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
thinking people film
I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
men thinking looks
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. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally.
real grandmother twenties
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 ancestor and a grandmother.
school trying wish
I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.
way sometimes innocent
Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.
coffee people trying
I try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
war men streets-of-paris
I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.
thinking enemy way
If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.
shy being-shy educated
I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
beautiful ideas joy
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.
war party exhibitions
The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.
strange painting young
[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.
people want saying-bad-things
I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.
memories mind nostalgic
I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.