I Love Silent Cinema But Don't Hold

Hollywood Is Much More Than America. Hollywood Belongs To All Of The Planet.

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.

But I Don't Think Of Myself As A Foreigner Or A Frenchman! I Just Think Of Myself As A Director. Whether I'm French Or Australian Or Whatever, It's Really Not Important.

When You Look At The Early-'30s Movies, Like King Kong, The Codes Of Acting Are Very Similar To Those Of Silent Movies. In Some Of The Silent Movies - The Good Ones, The Ones Done By The Best Directors - The Acting Is Very, Very Natural

I Can Say Is Usually People Are Slightly Confused. They Think That Silent Movies Are Old. But, The Fact Is, They Are Old Because They Have Been Made In The '20s. That's The Thing That Makes Them Old. Not The Format. The Format Is Just A Format. It's Not An Old Format.