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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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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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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 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 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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I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
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At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.
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