To Me The Recognition Of The Audience

I Guess All The Directors In France Are Influenced By Hitchcock, Because He's The Perfect Visual Director, In My Eyes.

I Think Hollywood Is Cleverer Than You Think. I'm Not Sure They Will Do It. I Don't Think So, But Maybe I'm Wrong. When We Were Doing The Preparation Of The Movie, We Didn't Have All The Money So We Were Looking For All The Solutions Possible, And 3d Was One Option.

Sometimes I Think You Have To Try To Do Things That People Don't Think Are Doable. I Remember At The Very Beginning Actually, The First Person I Had To Convince Was Myself Really Because There's A Self-censorship. When Everybody Says 'we Don't Do Silent Movies Anymore,' You Agree With Everybody, And You Say 'yeah, You're Right.' It Was A Fantasy.

I Like To Shoot Beautiful Things. My Two Previous Movies Were One In The '60s, The Other One In The '50s, And This One Is In The '20s. This Is A Period That's Very Cinegenic. The Cars, The Props, The Suits, The Haircuts, The Dresses, Everything, And It Gives You Pleasure To Compose Frames With That Material. The Music, I Really Love Jazz, So For Me, When You Have Good Materials And Nice Things, It's Very Pleasant.

The Germans Were Much More Graphical. The Expressionism Is Much More Than Cinema. It Was A Movement With Artists, Painters, Music And Architecture, So It's Really Graphic And Visual. And The French Were Something Else.