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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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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 don't watch my own films. There is little time I'd rather see another film.
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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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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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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 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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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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People like my films. They understand me through my films it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.
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I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.
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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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I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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I go back to many films that I really love. Some Bresson, some Godard of the early times, the Cassavetes of those years I love. And the early Wim Wenders. But my own films I don't watch, unless I need them.
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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 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 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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