French People Are Strange About America, I

I Make Almost All The Decisions On Set And Have To Deal With All The Financial Aspects.

Finally, You're Right About One Point, Your Entire Way Of Thinking Is Predicted By What You're Immersed In So You Know You Won't Make A Bad Decision. You Can Make A Bad Decision But It's Still In The Good Sphere Normally If You Work Well. You're Prepared To Face A Crew Who Wants To Know Everything And Poses A Hundred Questions A Minute, Because You Know You Have Good Reflexes And Can Respond Very Quickly.

I Am Unusual For A Frenchman - I Have Absolutely Nothing Against The United States.

I Chose The American Ones, More Or Less The Last Five Years Of The Silent Era, Because Those Are The Ones That Aged The Best In The Way They Tell The Story. One, It's About Human Beings With Context. It's A Very Classical Story With Feelings, With Laughter, Melodrama And It Really Works, The Good Ones - Murnau's American Movies, John Ford's Four Sons, King Vidor's The Crowd, Or The (josef) Von Sternberg Movies. You Can Watch It Now And It Still Works. I Mean They Are Really, Really Good Pieces So This Is Where I Tried To Work.

People Inside The Theaters Usually, Not 100 Percent But Most Of Them, Enjoy The Movie. Usually They Come With A Small Negative View. In A Way, They're Prepared To Get Bored Because It's Silent And Because It's Black And White. So They Are Much More Pleased To Be Entertained In A Way. They're Very Happy When They Go Out. This Was My Job. For The Other Ones, I Can Do Nothing Except Screen The Movie And Hope That They Will Say To Their Friends That It's Not So [bad].