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It's nice to think that we have in ourselves the energy. It's somewhere, but it's sleeping sometimes. I try to wake it up when I need it.
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 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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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.
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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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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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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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I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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 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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