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Sometimes I want to work with a DP, sometimes I want to work myself. I go to 35mm, 16mm, it's all the same, but it depends on what you want to tell and what are the tools you need.

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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.
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I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.
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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.
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I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.
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You have to invent life.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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 think we need to have a nest of something which is family.
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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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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, Le jeu et les moi. It's impossible to translate, because it has a very nice sound. It sounds so lovely in French. So I took that because it was the subject: I and myself and myself and I. Which is, in a way, boring, because it is a contradictio
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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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If you know nothing, it could be like an enemy in a way. I think that's the way I felt when I was young.
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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 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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If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .
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