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If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.
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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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.
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I don't try to make a place in history at all! People put me in the history of cinema because my first film, La pointe-courte, was so ahead of some other filmmakers. Many filmmakers have made resurgent work, and I was just a little ahead of the time.
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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 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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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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I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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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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We need to find another way or another shape or an allegory or something that tells us more. Even Vagabond - it was a fiction but it was really a documentary. I mean, it has the texture of documentary. Even if I made up every line, it has the texture of being true.
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I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
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My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.
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I had flops, I had success.
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I live in cinema. I feel I've lived here forever.
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