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I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.

Agnes Varda

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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.
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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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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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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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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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I'm interested in people who are not exactly the middle way, or who are trying something else because they cannot prevent themselves from being different, or they wish to be different, or they are different because society pushed them away.
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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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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'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!
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It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.
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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 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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I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
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If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.
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