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I'm not nostalgic. My memories are back here in my mind.

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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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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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I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.
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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 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 not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.
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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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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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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I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.
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I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
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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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In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.
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It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.
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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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