193 Quotes by Agnes Varda

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.

I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.

I've seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don't do commercials, I don't do films pre-prepared by other people, I don't do star system. So I do my own little thing.

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

I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

You have to invent life.

The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.