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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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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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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'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 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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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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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 cannot say something different to one person and then another.
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At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.
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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.
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I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.
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I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.
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Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!
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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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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 tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.
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