193 Quotes by Agnes Varda

Happiness is a beautiful fruit that tastes of cruelty.

I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them. I have respect for literature.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.

I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film every year. Some people have done fifty or sixty films.

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