““I try hard to give rhythm to the changes of pace in a film so that the directing is full of contrast: moments when the direction is reserved and academic, and then suddenly there’s a change in tone. Here’s what I dream of: that the viewer in the movie theater says to himself, ‘yeah, okay, it’s filmed theater,’ and then suddenly changes his mind: ‘yes, but in theater you can’t do that…’ And it goes back and forth from theater to film, and sometimes over to comic strips with Blutch ‘s input. I’d like to try to achieve what Raymond Queneau called in Saint-Glinglin ‘ la brouchecoutaille ,’ a sort of ratatouille, by breaking down the walls between film and theater and thus ending up totally free.””
