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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.

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'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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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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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 was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!
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I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
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I had flops, I had success.
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To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.
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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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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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 think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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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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Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.
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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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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'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.
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