Agnes Varda Quotes
Top 47 wise famous quotes and sayings by Agnes Varda
Agnes Varda Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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.
To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.
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.
People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.
I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.
The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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.
The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.
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.
I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
I quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women; I don't even want to meet them or see them.
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.
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.