193 Quotes by Agnes Varda

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’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.

Some people meet each other again only when I’m there!

Si on ouvrait des gens, on trouverait des paysages. Si on m’ouvrait moi, on trouverait des plages.

I let things happen because I never make a film that people ask me to do or bring me a package with a good book and two actors and all that. I think cinema should be made by coming from nowhere to becoming a film. This I believe in.

The most current thing about my work is me on the day I’m shooting.

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

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.

Whatever your brilliance, your pessimism, your thoughts about existence, the answer is always... Life. It’s not a dialectical idea, it’s a lived contradiction. Gramsci said, ‘We have to be pessimists in our thinking and optimists in our actions.