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Agnès Varda

Film director, photographer and installation artist

Belgium / France · 1928–2019

French film director, born in Belgium, whose films include La Pointe Courte, Cléo from 5 to 7, Vagabond, The Gleaners and I and Faces Places. She began as a photographer and later made installation art, and received an honorary Academy Award in 2017.

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How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure?

I have never made any money from my films but I have won prizes and recognition. I have been on the margins forever. They all came to see me receive the award - there was Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Richard Gere and so on. I was imagining what they would all be worth in money terms. You see I was never bankable, I could not bring any money ever to the table. I like the friendships and, yes, the admiration but I don’t want to make a big fuss about it. I will go on working as long as I am able!

Recorded Richard Mowe, Eye For Film feature interview, 12 February 2018 source

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