In Order To Be Universal, You Have

When The Film [certified Copy] Was In The Cannes Festival, I Realized That The Fact Of Having It Shot In A Different Culture, In A Different Language, In A Different Setting, That Wasn't Mine And That I Didn't Belong To, Gave Me A Totally Different Relationship To The Film. When I Was Sitting In The Audience During The Official Screening In Cannes, I Didn't Feel That It Was My Film.

I Never Intended To Write Poems, Nor To Be A Photographer, Nor To Be A Film-maker. I Just Took Many, Many Pictures And I Would Put Them In An Album, And Then Some Years Later I Decided To Show Them And Suddenly I Was Called A Photographer. Same Thing With My Poetry. They're Notes That I'd Written In A Book And It May Be Considered Poetry.

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.

All The Different Nations In The World, Despite Their Differences Of Appearance And Religion And Language And Way Of Life, Still Have One Thing In Common, And That Is What's Inside Of All Of Us. If We X-rayed The Insides Of Different Human Beings, We Wouldn't Be Able To Tell From Those X-rays What The Person's Language Or Background Or Race Is.

In This Type Of Cinema, Whether Working With Actors Or Non-actors, As Much As You Do Direct Them, If You Allow Yourself To Be Directed By Them, Then The End Result Will Be Much More Pleasing. The Real And Individual Strengths Of The Actors Is Allowed To Be Expressed And Is Something That Does Affect The Audience Very Deeply.