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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.
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 try to do nothing. I drink rosemary when I have a lot of work to do. People take coffee, they take speed, whatever. I take rosemary.
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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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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'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've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.
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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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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 didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others maybe it would have stopped me.
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Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!
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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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