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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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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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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 never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally.
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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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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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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.
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I had flops, I had success.
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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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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 think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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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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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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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 don't watch my own films. There is little time I'd rather see another film.
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If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.
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Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!
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You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.
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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 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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