Bernard Herrmann Was A Genius, A Great,

I Think The Writer Is Always The Creator, Because He's Starting With Nothing, But The Actor Comes In And Gives Flesh And Blood.

It's Just Incredible. When You're French, Coming From A Non-english Language Country, You Don't Even Dream About Oscar Recognition Or Nominations. It's Just Beyond The Dream. It's Something Very, Very Special And Unique. It's The Highest Recognition Any Filmmaker Could Dream Of

It's About Storytelling. The Story Is Told Through Images. So With The Cast, I Had To Make Sure That The Emotions Were Readable Without Sound... I Know Some Great Actors, If You Turn Off The Sound, You Don't Really Know What They're Saying

It's Not My Job. The Weinstein Company, It's Their Job To Convince People. My Job Was To Make The Movie. That's What I Did. I Know What We Did In France Was To Have The Maximum Screenings Just To Let People Talk About The Movie And Say They Enjoyed The Movie.

I Chose The American Ones, More Or Less The Last Five Years Of The Silent Era, Because Those Are The Ones That Aged The Best In The Way They Tell The Story. One, It's About Human Beings With Context. It's A Very Classical Story With Feelings, With Laughter, Melodrama And It Really Works, The Good Ones - Murnau's American Movies, John Ford's Four Sons, King Vidor's The Crowd, Or The (josef) Von Sternberg Movies. You Can Watch It Now And It Still Works. I Mean They Are Really, Really Good Pieces So This Is Where I Tried To Work.