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I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.
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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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The mirror is the tool of the one who wants to do a self-portrait. And if you want to make a photo you need a mirror.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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 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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.
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I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.
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I think I did fifteen long features and fifteen documentaries, or something like this, which is very little when you think of people making a film every year. Some people have done fifty or sixty films.
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You have to invent life.
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If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.
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Good cinema is good cinema. It makes you feel like you need to work. Just yesterday I saw a good film, but even if I'd seen a bad one, I'd feel, Oh my god, what a bad job, I can do better.
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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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I had flops, I had success.
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