I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.
I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.
I am less instinctive as I try to be more professional - about the music, about the sound.
To be a film-maker, you are almost forced to be surrounded by contradictions... You must have talents of so many different kinds - talents that are contradictory.
