I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate.
“I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.”
“I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.”