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This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5.

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

I started working in the mid-to-late Seventies, when television was not what it is now.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.