Agnes Varda Quotes

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.

The web offers a creative climate that filmmakers have been craving for.

I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me.

Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.

I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.

I felt I would have the most creative freedom making experimental films and teaching, as I had many good examples of people around me who did just that.

I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a Venetian blind, strong shadows, looking slightly off-camera.

I still direct my own videos.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.

I think it's the same thing for a country. We are lucky then that we can get some financing from the government, because it means when I get the money, when I get the grant to do the film, of course it's based on the script, but I have total artistic control and I can do personal stuff.

I've documented a lot of things myself as a filmmaker. If you want a rockumentary, that's in there.

I think basically I'm a painter, but I would use anything to make my point.

Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire.

If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it.

Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them the most fully truthful expression of their vision... as Robert Frost told a person who asked him what one of his poems meant, 'You want me to say it worse?'

[Kubrick] was unique in the sense that with each new film he redefined the medium and its possibilities. But he was more than just a technical innovator. Like all visionaries, he spoke the truth. And no matter how comfortable we think we are with the truth, it always comes as a profound shock when we're forced to meet it face-to-face.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.