Agnes Varda Quotes

I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.

My all-time favorites that I always go back to are films by the director John Cassavetes. The movies he made, the work he left behind, have been a big influence for my work.

I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.

I always loved Japanese movies. And they had an enormous impact in France - the Nouvelle Vague took so much from them. It taught us how the camera was placed in the centre of the action.

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

I love my arthouse films, and I love taking a chance.

From the moment I met Martin Scorsese in 1962, he educated me about the films that had taught him so much about filmmaking. He had been deeply affected, even as a child, by great films that stretched his mind and struck into his heart, and he was eager to share them with friends and people who worked with him or with actors who were in his films.

Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and Antonioni. Those are my gods.

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

I love David Lynch's style. Someone once thought I was his son, so I must have been doing an alright job at emulating it.

Watching 'Morvern Callar' was a game changer for me.

I'm a huge film buff. If it wasn't for Martin Scorcese, Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani, I wouldn't be here.

When I started, I wanted probably to make games that were inspired by films that I liked.

When we were cutting 'Raging Bull,' Martin Scorsese was watching 'The Films of Hoffmann' on a 16-mm print over and over and over again.

To those of us who have seen all of Eric Rohmer's films, it is impossible not to remember when, where, with whom we saw each one. I even remember the second and third time I saw his films.

Akira Kurosawa, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock were the main inspirations for 'Samurai Jack,' along with a lot of '70s cinema.