Agnes Varda Quotes

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

My secrets must be poetic to be believable.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

If you're a fan of anything I do, I'm always telling a story. I'm into that - I like it when you don't know if it was true or not.

A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.