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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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Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.
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I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
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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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I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
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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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I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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You are always in the world. Even in Vagabond. I am not on the road, I am not eating nothing. But in a way we all have a Mona. We all have inside ourselves a woman who walks alone on the road. In all women there is something in revolt that is not expressed.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.
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I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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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 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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At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.
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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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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.
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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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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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