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French cinematographer Raoul Coutard (1924-2016) was originally a war photographer. He made his debut as a director of photography in the film 'La Passe du Diable' and became a leading figure in French New Wave cinema. [Listener: Bernard Cohn; date recorded: 2004]

TRANSCRIPT: Explaining everything... I think that there are some who explain a lot of things but who explain the essential and who answer questions if we want to ask them. Jean-Luc isn't... So, for example, François... I mean, you asked him questions and he answered. You'd tell him, 'So what are we going to do?' So he would explain to you why he wanted to do things like that. So even if it meant asking for an opinion, what do you think, etc. I mean...

Jean-Luc never asks anyone what they think, once it's filmed he might eventually ask whether it was good or bad. But he only trusts himself. But at the same time to a certain extent I think that he's right, to the extent where he's the only one who can do what he does.