He is like a fish in water.
Over the years, Michel Ciment met filmmakers for the magazine
Positif
.
Often he seems to know their films better than they do.
Credit where credit is due: this collection of interviews*, originally published in 1987 and no longer found, begins with Billy Wilder.
In his office on Santa Monica Boulevard, there was a stuffed bird in his cage.
Wilder remembers his beginnings when he typed scripts on his machine:
"What we wrote was a bit of toilet paper which they used or not."
He makes fun of Godard and his acrobatics, evokes Marilyn (
"Directing her, it was like pulling teeth")
.
Marlene?
("She's a German Hausfrau. Her favorite things are scrubbing the floor and making scrambled eggs."
).
Barry Lyndon
?
("One Hundred Miles from Reynolds and Gainsborough"
).
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