An Idea Is Something You Work On

I Am Unusual For A Frenchman - I Have Absolutely Nothing Against The United States.

At The Very Beginning, It's A Desire And That's Not The Same Thing At All, Because When You Have The Desire To Do Something, All The Work You Can Do Is A Positive Thing. It's Not Something That You Calculate. An Idea Is Something You Work On To Make It Work And A Desire Is Much Deeper In A Way. The Immersion, It's Classical, I Watched A Lot Of Movies.

This Is The Problem With Language, And This Is What Makes Silent Movies Fun, Because The Connection With Them, Me Or The Audience Is Not With The Language. There's No Question Of Interpretation Of What We Are Saying It's Just About Feeling. You Create Your Own Story

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.

I Looked At A Lot Of Photos From Hollywood In The '20s, Photographs Of Silent Movies Being Filmed All Over The World Which Are Very Specific And Very Evocative. Berenice, The Lead Actress, Is My Wife. She Really Followed The Same Path With Me.