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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.

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

I Make Almost All The Decisions On Set And Have To Deal With All The Financial Aspects.

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.