When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing – James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had to find a structure for cinema. I fought for a radical cinema, and I continued all my life. Agnes Varda Read Quote
My parents named me Arlette, and I changed it to Agnes when I was young. I didn’t like it because I don’t like names with ‘ette’ – you know, it looks like a little girl’s name. Agnes Varda Read Quote
I saw ‘Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs’ when it came out, didn’t like it too much. I found she was stupid. Agnes Varda Read Quote
Maybe something that amuses the Americans is that they are so worried about age, and I’m not at all. Agnes Varda Read Quote
I make documentaries from time to time to remind myself of reality. It’s like musicians doing scales to keep their fingers working: when you’re in the street, listening to people, you’re forced to be in the service of your subject. Agnes Varda Read Quote
I was not raised with films. And when Alain Resnais did the editing on my first film, he said, ‘You should go to the Cinematheque.’ I didn’t even know we had one in Paris. Agnes Varda Read Quote