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I was a screenwriter
during the New Wave.
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That's so long ago.
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I really got sick of it.
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Well before May '68,
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I got tired of making art films.
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I was going nowhere.
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I was ready for May to hit me,
and that's what happened.
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Did I take part in May?
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Yes and no, like everyone.
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Most of my friends
got caught up in it,
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marching from the Odéon
to the Sorbonne.
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It was serious,
and at the same time it wasn't.
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You'd run into people at meetings
where you couldn't help thinking,
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"That joker's here?
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With the films he makes,
he's got some nerve!"
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Funny thing is, he probably thought
the same thing about you.
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You wouldn't believe
how many things I saw back then
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that drove me away.
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That time in Flins, for example.
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Or the week I spent
in Issy-les-Moulins
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with a guy who called himself
a Marxist-Leninist
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and who knew
the factory guys, the CSF.
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And Susan and I...
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that was right at the beginning.
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We lived through
the month of May together.
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It sounds silly and romantic,
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but it was great.
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When everything returned to normal
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and they asked me to direct
an adaptation