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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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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 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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.
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At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.
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The boundaries between contemporary art and cinema are so rigid. It's unbelievable. The film critics don't know my artwork and the art world doesn't know my films.
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I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.
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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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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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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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I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.
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Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!
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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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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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