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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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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 was a photographer first.I worked alone. I did it my way as much as I could. I have been sort of courageous about doing things, because I didn't think I should do less than my brothers.
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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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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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 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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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've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.
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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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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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 not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.
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I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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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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