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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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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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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'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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It's a way of living, cinema. And I see my family, I do this and that, I travel. It's a long process to let it happen.
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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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I don't watch my own films. There is little time I'd rather see another film.
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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 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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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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I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.
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I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.
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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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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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 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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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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