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
strong couple years
The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.
strong war men
I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.
strong directors needs
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
strong ocean thinking
I never fought, I never learned kung fu or boxing, I never went into these sportif competitions. I wouldn't cross the ocean. I think it's ridiculous to take such risk. But look, people love to do that. But I was not afraid of doing things I wished to do. I did not think that woman would be restrained. I never saw that, especially not in filmmaking, where you don't have to be strong.
strong humor weapons
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
strong humor laughing
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
movie forever cinema
I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.
thinking years long
I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film every year. Some people have done fifty or sixty films.
years ideas important
I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.
book literature found
I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
people way enjoy
It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
beautiful stars book
I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.
cinema aim
At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.
virginia years people
When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently.