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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.
Agnes Varda
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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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It's peaceful to think about the family as a group. I totally believe in extended families.
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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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I never met Publo Picasso. I took pictures at the Festival d'Avignon, but I was too shy to ask to go in his studio. It does not look like me now, but I was very shy, and shy of men also. I think there was a world that frightened me totally.
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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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I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
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I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.
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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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If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.
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You have to invent life.
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I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
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I don't watch my own films. There is little time I'd rather see another film.
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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 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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