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I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
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 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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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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When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!
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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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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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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.
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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 have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.
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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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People like my films. They understand me through my films it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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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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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I had flops, I had success.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.
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