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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.

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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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I had flops, I had success.
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People like my films. They understand me through my films it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.
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Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!
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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 quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women I don't even want to meet them or see them.
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[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, Le jeu et les moi. It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradictio
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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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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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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