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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 .
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 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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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 should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.
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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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I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
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I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.
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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'd been educated stupidly, I knew nothing about nothing, that's part of being shy.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.
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This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
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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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I cannot say something different to one person and then another.
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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'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.
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Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer.
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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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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
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I'm missing some people, you know, and this is not nostalgia. I miss them. This is melancholy.
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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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