“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.” Quote by Agnes Varda
“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.” MenWarCertainStreetsEffectsSoldierParisPlusFrighteningEighteenShynessLack Of EducationEffects Of WarStreets Of Paris Author:Agnes Varda
“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.” IfsShouldRealFiveTwentiesGrandmotherAncestorTwenty Five Author:Agnes Varda
“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.” IfsWaySometimesInnocentMasterpiece Author:Agnes Varda
“I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.” ThinkingSchoolFilmCamerasAssistantsFilm SchoolTrainees Author:Agnes Varda
“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.” WayTryingHelpingSchoolFilmWishStudentsGoes OnAdmireFilm School Author:Agnes Varda
“I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.” PeopleThinkingShouldDifferentCarefulBe CarefulOld You Author:Agnes Varda
“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.” PeopleTryingDrinkSpeedCoffeeRosemary Author:Agnes Varda
“My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.” WaterCompanyHotSpeedHerbsHot WaterRosemary Author:Agnes Varda
“It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.” ThinkingNeedsTryingSometimesEnergySleepNice Author:Agnes Varda
“To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.” PeopleFirstsTwoStatesBlackVoteBlack PeopleRight To Vote Author:Agnes Varda