There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.