Quotes from Agnes Varda

Like everybody, I wanted to meet Andy Warhol. I was impressed by his work and how daring he was. I think he changed the cinema completely, simply by opening his camera and letting it go.

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!

Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, "Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better."

I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.

I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

Sometimes I do things that are not really the right way because I'm daring, in a way.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

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

I saw 'Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs' when it came out, didn't like it too much. I found she was stupid.

I enjoy the time passing. I think it's a privilege to be in friendship with time.

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!

To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.

I didn't have a career; I made films. It's very different.

I had flops, I had success.

You have to invent life.

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

I didn't see myself as a woman doing film but as a radical film-maker who was a woman.

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.

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

I am a woman. I think I have the spirit, the intelligence, and - dare I say - the soul of a woman.

I'm curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.