“I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.” Quote by Agnes Varda
“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.” PeopleKnowsHeartSufferingInterestingPoorConditionsDrinkBeatsToughVery GoodLovelyViolentGood TimesPlusRudeSweetheart Author:Agnes Varda
“I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.” PeopleWantShouldProblemBigsWantedPoorSubjectsSeriousWasteEatingThinkerConsumptionDocumentariesPoor PeopleSerious Subjects Author:Agnes Varda
“There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.” DifferentTypeSheerCoincidence Author:Renata Adler
“I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who understand each other this way and others who understand each other that way. Then there's this great herd, the "herd of independent minds."” ThinkingWayMindMeanDifferentPlanetsIndependentHerdsExtravagant Author:Renata Adler
“Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.” NiceNegativeCriticismNastyNegative Criticism Author:Renata Adler
“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.” PeopleTryingWellsLooksI CanSpeakAnswersKnowingWonderfulBedDocumentaries Author:Agnes Varda
“I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.” PeopleThinkingFilmInsects Author:Agnes Varda
“You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.” WorldWayWalksEatingRevoltVagabonds Author:Agnes Varda
“I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.” PeopleWayTryingDifferentWishMiddleBeing DifferentMiddle WayTrying Something Author:Agnes Varda
“People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.” PeopleThinkingFeelsBelieveChildrenDon't BelieveOld PeopleOrphan Author:Agnes Varda