1:03:01
I choose good subjects,
3 times out of 5.
1:03:03
I don't make films in Germany.
I leave our propaganda to the French.
1:03:07
Vichy censorship can't touch us
and I pay the best.
1:03:11
- What more do you want?
- I don't know.
1:03:14
Isn't it a bit too salty?
1:03:16
Salt always hides something.
1:03:19
Ever since the Middle Ages.
1:03:21
Forget the Middle Ages, Aurenche.
1:03:22
It's salted just right.
1:03:25
Hire Prevert.
Hire Jeanson, Very, Laroche...
1:03:29
Jeanson was denounced by the French.
1:03:31
And the others tell me, "Hire Aurenche."
1:03:38
Spaak!
1:03:42
Hello, Dr. Greven.
1:03:44
Tell him to work for me, Spaak.
1:03:46
Tell him I'm no ogre.
1:03:49
Odette Joyeux is raving
about Love Letters.
1:03:52
Thanks. How about you?
1:03:54
I have my ups and downs.
1:03:58
He's not afraid to work for me.
He's finishing a film
1:04:01
and he's signed to do
a Simenon, a Maigret.
1:04:05
Give him my two films then.
1:04:08
He doesn't have that French light touch.
1:04:12
You have it. I want to make
lots of good films.
1:04:15
Better than the Americans.
So I need good scripts,
1:04:19
- Hence, good scriptwriters.
- Take your pick.
1:04:22
There's nothing to pick.
And you know why?
1:04:25
No more Jews. Not in Germany,
not here. The best writers
1:04:30
were Jews. Natanson, Andre Lang,
Pierre Wolff. All gone!
1:04:34
If you know any, send them over.
1:04:38
Mr. Greven,
1:04:40
even if I knew any, think I'd tell you?
1:04:43
Know what you risk
talking to me like that?
1:04:45
I could send you to Germany tomorrow.
1:04:48
Sure... If I were a laborer
1:04:51
or maitre d', I'd answer differently.
1:04:54
But we're 2 bourgeois. I'm poorer,
but still a bourgeois.
1:04:57
We're two of a kind.