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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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The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.
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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'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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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 had a very good time when I did The Gleaners - even though the people are poor, and I was suffering to see the conditions, and plus they are not such lovely hearts. They are tough to each other, they beat each other, they are rude and they are violent and they drink. They're not sweethearts, you know, but some were so interesting.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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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 quit seeing some people who were saying bad things about women I don't even want to meet them or see them.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.
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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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I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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I hated myself totally white. So now I cheat. It's my white hair, and I put color there. My grandson says I'm punk.
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