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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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The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.
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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 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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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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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 wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.
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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 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 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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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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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I call [ordinary people] real people, because they have in themselves an incredible treasure - stories, a way of speaking, a way of sharing, an innocence and a perversity which I find very interesting to discover little by little.
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Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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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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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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I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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I'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
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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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