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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.
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 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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I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother.
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I was free always. I could work without the money, to film this and that. But this is another point, because now I'm alone, and I can just use it when I want. I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.
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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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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 have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
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I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
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I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.
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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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I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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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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At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.
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I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!
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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 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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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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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
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I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others maybe it would have stopped me.
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