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

Agnes Varda

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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.
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I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film every year. Some people have done fifty or sixty films.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.
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It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.
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I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I'm alone, and I can just use it when I want. I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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I had flops, I had success.
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I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
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I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.
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People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.
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To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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I've seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don't do commercials, I don't do films pre-prepared by other people, I don't do star system. So I do my own little thing.
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I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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