“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.” PeopleTryingFirstsLittlesMadeFilmCinemaFilmmakerPointe Author:Agnes Varda
“I was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.” ThinkingWayShouldFirstsHas BeensBrotherPhotographerMy WayMy BrotherCourageous Author:Agnes Varda
“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.” KnowsInspirationalScienceNatureMiraclePhilosophicalContraryHippoDaily Miracles Author:Saint Augustine
“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.” PeopleThinkingLooksWould BeStrongSawsRiskOceanCrossesCompetitionRidiculousBoxingNot AfraidFilmmakingKung Fu Author:Agnes Varda
“You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.” NeedsFilmStrongDirectorsMusclesCarpenter Author:Agnes Varda
“Death is a big theme in the book, illness. What is that? It's a fact that human beings - no matter who they are, no matter how healthy or strong or beautiful they are - are going to age and become weak and ugly by a certain standard, and die. And I think that's a terrifying idea for people to get their minds around.” PeopleThinkingMindHumansBookIdeasMatterFactsBigsAgeBeautifulCertainDiesStrongHuman BeingsHealthyStandardsWeakIllnessUglyTheme Author:Mary Gaitskill
“When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.” FirstsDifferentUseFilmThreeLanguageDirectorsFranceCinema Author:Agnes Varda
“Human beings look so different from each other, voices are so different, everything about us is so individual, and that's so exciting and juicy and appealing, and we're attached to these things and they're so fascinating and beautiful - I don't just mean model-beautiful, but all the individual forms that people can take.” PeopleHumansLooksMeanDifferentBeautifulFormIndividualVoiceHuman BeingsModelsExcitingFascinatingJuicy Author:Mary Gaitskill
“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.” PeopleYearsDoneLastsLiteraturePathSawsPaintingTheaterFollowingContemporaryFranceRelateCinemaThirtyMy TimeVirginiaThirty YearsJoyceWoolf Author:Agnes Varda
“At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.” AimCinema Author:Agnes Varda