I Believe There's Only Good Cinema And

In The Total Darkness, Poetry Is Still There, And It Is There For You.

I Think Life Is So Difficult To Catch, It's So Furtive, That A Copy, A Film, Can In No Way Catch It And Represent It.

There Were Years When Hitchcock Was Like A Master To Me, But Now I Think He's So Artificial. I Can Watch Films And Say How Technically Beautiful They Are, But I'm Not Impressed By Any Technicality.

I Think The Contrast Between These Two In The Professional World Of Cinema Mattered To Me. One Who Has Reached The Ultimate Point Of Being A Star, Who Knows How To Do Everything Very Well, Facing Another Person Who Would Throughout The Making Of The Film Transfer His Anxiety To Both Of Us, To Me And To Juliette, As To Whether Or Not He Would Be Capable Of Fulfilling His Role. This In Itself Created A Challenge That Was Actually Very Good For Me, Since I Hadn't Ever Counterposed Two Such Performers Before, Creating That Challenge Between Someone Who Knows Their Part And Someone Who Doesn't.

What I Am Trying To Say Is That It Is Not Without Any Value. The Value Of Copies Is That They Can Direct Us Towards The Original. I Was Recently At The Louvre Museum And I Was Filming People Who Were Viewing The Mona Lisa. I Noticed The Number Of Ordinary People, Astonished, Mouths Agape, Standing Still For Long Stretches Looking At The Work, And I Wondered, "where Does This Come From? Are These People All Art Connoisseurs?" They Are Like Me; Through The Years, We've Seen This Work In Our Schoolbooks Or Art History Books, But When We Stand Before The Original, We Hold Our Breath.