So I Left With Jean Claude And

People Who Make Documentaries Have To Be Faithful To The Facts. But When You Are Making A Drama, A Fiction Based On The Life, All You Have To Be Faithful To Is The Spirit Of The Facts, Which I Think I Was In Every Case. As Long As You Don't Violate Their Spirit, You Can Play With The Facts.

You Really See Life Around The Principals To Be As Important As The Main, Principal Actors. That's What Cinéma Vérité Taught Me - That It's Not A Question Of Having A Main Character, A Great Actor, And The Rest Is Unimportant. Every Detail, Every Face In The Crowd Is Important.

Ideological Pressure Is Much More Crippling Than Commercial Pressure. Crippling To Your Own Freedom Of Thinking And Creating, Crippling The Final Results. If You Wanted To Succeed During The Really Hard-line Totalitarian Regime, You Have To Make So Many Compromises To Please The Censors That You Don't Recognize The Original Idea From The Final Result.

For Me, Speaking Is Work. It's Not Like When You Breathe.

Because If You Lived, As I Did, Several Years Under Nazi Totalitarianism, And Then 20 Years In Communist Totalitarianism, You Would Certainly Realize How Precious Freedom Is, And How Easy It Is To Lose Your Freedom.