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Agnes Varda
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Agnes Varda
Age: 90 †
Born: 1928
Born: May 30
Died: 2019
Died: March 29
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
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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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Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.
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When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.
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I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid.
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I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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At that time, when I started, in the '50s, cinema was very classical in its aims.
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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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It's a way of living, sharing things with people who work with me, and they seem to enjoy it.
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I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not.
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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 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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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!
Agnes Varda
Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.
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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.
Agnes Varda
I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
Agnes Varda
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.
Agnes Varda
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 should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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