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When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'
I try hard to give rhythm to the changes of pace in a film so that the directing is full of contrast: moments when the direction is reserved and academic, and then suddenly there's a change in tone. Here's what I dream of: that the viewer in the movie theater says to himself, 'yeah, okay, it's filmed theater,' and then suddenly changes his mind: 'yes, but in theater you can't do that…' And it goes back and forth from theater to film, and sometimes over to comic strips with Blutch's input. I'd like to try to achieve what Raymond Queneau called in Saint-Glinglin 'la brouchecoutaille,' a sort of ratatouille, by breaking down the walls between film and theater and thus ending up totally free.
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
They say that a director always makes the same film. I try to make, as François Truffaut said, the next film in opposition to the one that came before. I'm not sure if I succeed. To put it another way, I agree with the auteur theory, but I don't consider myself an auteur. I'm more of an artisan, a craftsman.
There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.
I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.
Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.
My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.
There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.
When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them. They weren't frightening at all. I'm sure they'd be very funny now.
