Agnès Varda

Filmmaker

1928-05-30 – 2019-03-29

Agnès Varda was a French filmmaker, photographer, and artist associated with the French New Wave. Her films, including Cléo from 5 to 7 and Vagabond, are acclaimed for formal innovation and humanist focus. She remained influential across documentary and narrative cinema for decades.

Quotes by Agnès Varda

I saw 'Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs' when it came out, didn't like it too much. I found she was stupid.
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I wore black until I was twenty-five, like many young people. Everybody did. It was crazy! But now, getting older, I think color does me good.
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When I was younger, people were inventing a new way of writing - James Joyce, Hemingway, Faulkner. And I thought we had to find a structure for cinema. I fought for a radical cinema, and I continued all my life.
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