Quotes by Agnes Varda

Agnes Varda

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words – this is a book!

Book

Found

Literature

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with – but God didn’t take me, so I cut the braid.

Cutting

Hair

People

I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.

Hate

I Hate

Should

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

Needs

Nests

Thinking

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.

Grandmother

Real

Twenties

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.

Coffee

People

Trying

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.

Ideas

Important

Years

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.

People

Serious Subjects

Want

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.

Feminism

Speak

Struggle

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.

Men

Streets Of Paris

War

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Adventure

Aim

Artist

Beautiful

Being Different

Being Shy

Believe

Black

Blonde

Body

Book

Bores

Cameras

Cat

Children

Cinema

Coffee

Color

Cooks

Couple

Cutting

Dancer

Different

Directors

Educated

Enemy

Everyday

Exhibitions

Feelings

Feminism

Feminist

Fighting

Film

Found

Gleaning

Grandmother

Hair

Hands

Hate

Heart

Hot

Humor

I Hate

Ideas

Ifs

Important

Innocent

Interesting

Joy

Landscape

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Quotes by Agnes Varda

Agnes Varda

I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words – this is a book!

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with – but God didn’t take me, so I cut the braid.

I should say nothing! I’m through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it’s been a struggle.

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.

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