Revealing that the French New Wave legend, who died in March, visited him on the set of his upcoming film 'The Irishman,' Scorsese said, 'I got a lot of the inspiration [for that film] from her, you know? Because she didn't care — 'There are no rules!' That's the key to her work.'
, who was Varda's assistant on two films that she made in San Francisco in the late sixties.
Insdorf, in opening remarks, noted that the diminutive Varda was "the only female who was associated with" the group of maverick filmmakers who came to be credited with the French New Wave, and through her life and work "gave lie not only to sexism, but also to ageism.
Rosalie Demy remembered that while growing up, "Each time the phone would ring, Jacques would say, 'It's Hollywood!' Of course, it wasn't Hollywood. But then one day, it was Hollywood.
Mathieu Demy noted that his mother's personal and professional life were "always mixed together." Luddy recounted the funny story of how he was tasked by his boss at the San Francisco Film Festival with showing Varda around the city when she came to town, and the next day was working for her on a documentary, emphasizing, "She was the type of person you can't say 'no' to.
But it was Scorsese who gave the most lengthy and powerful summation of Varda, the inimitable character, delivering a soliloquy of some 15 minutes. "She was a wonder to me, reinventing constantly," he said, calling her "an inspiration" and marveling that "She immediately picked up digital." He also noted that she would often show up unannounced when he was at work, and that he was always happy to see her, knowing that he would always get the straight truth from her.
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