Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some very modern directors like The Coen Brothers. The directors take the freedom within their own movies to be melodramatic or funny when they chose to be. They do whatever they want and they don't care about the genre.

I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

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

Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great

Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies