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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.
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 see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.
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I tried to find a language for the film - not just telling stories. I picked the Picasso painting because it said more than I could explain. I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That's what I try to do all the time.
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Some people meet each other again only when I'm there!
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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 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've always been like this - trying to find adventure where it's still in its first élan - the first spring.
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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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I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.
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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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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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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 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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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.
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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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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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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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Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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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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