Agnes Varda

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

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

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

I think I was a feminist before being born. I had a feminist chromosome somewhere.

My mind is often half-sleeping, like in a daydream.

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

When I love somebody, I cannot drop it out of my life. Love is not something like you open and you close, you know?

I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.

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.

Aging for me is not a condition but a subject.

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

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.