Euzhan Palcy

“Oh the movie who really confirm my desire and encourage me and make me say okay I am going to be a filmmaker. Black Orpheus. Marcel Camus. Oh gosh Marcel Camus he doesn't know what he did to me when I saw that film and I was a young girl in the Caribbean and that day the theater was packed and I would never forget it was so rare to have a movie with black characters and in positive roles. People were fighting to see that movie. I think that I saw that movie at least 50 times. Orfeu Negro. Oh...”

“Yes Mr Hitchcock Alfred of course I learn a lot from him now when The Lady Vanishes yeah and I remember with my brothers when we were watching a Hitchcock movie like Psycho or others you know in fact we used to play a game. We will try to imagine who is the villain who did the crime what will happen next and of course we will fail because he was oh it's was impossible with Hitchcock he will take you all over the place.”

“I'm happy because very few people you know that movie The Naked Island they call it L'Île nue in French has the same translation that movie has no dialogues and the way that filmmaker told the story with those two characters a man and his wife on a boat they live on an island and then they have they do the crossing to go to town to buy food water and all kind of things and no dialogue and it's a feature film and you just like you get into that movie and not one minute you feel bored.”

“Okay then 400 Blows from Truffaut. I was very fortunate to meet Truffaut through his daughter Laura. I was a student in Paris and I was working on my first movie a screenplay Sugar Cane Alley and Truffaut read the script he gave me some advice and at the end he became my godfather. And when the movie got the Cesar for best first film Truffaut was there in that room because he was getting the Cesar for all his work. He was very sick and that was the last time they saw him in public.”