Agnes Varda Film Quotations

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

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.

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.

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.

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.