Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.
I knew I'd have to go to Paris eventually, and I didn't want to be the provincial kid who just turns up and says, 'I want to act.'
The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.
I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.
As much as my parents were worried about me moving to London at 17, they could see that I was hungry to find my path. And it probably helped that they saw me succeeding at it, slowly but surely.
As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.
I went to Paris when I was about 18 and then went to Miami and New York. I did all of that alone. I did it to myself.