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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.
Agnes Varda
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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.
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I had flops, I had success.
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I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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 cannot say something different to one person and then another.
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I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.
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I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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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 don't watch my own films. There is little time I'd rather see another film.
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