Guillaume Schiffman

0:20mother went in the movie business. She was like assistant and a screenwriter for Francois-Pouffour. And I didn't want to do this kind of business. I ate it, but I was like a bad, bad student. So I started as a grip because I couldn't go to a, and then as a grip I find a GOP cinematographer who likes me and he said, you're not dreaming to be a grip. And I said, yeah, I like it. I mean, that's physical. I like it. Okay, I'll be my trainee for once, and you'll see if you like the camera. And then that's it. I'll lead through the camera. Really, I can do, I have done some movie with a camera man.

1:08Sometimes I work with steady cameras and things. I can do it. But I think I'm faster and I'm better when I'm looking at physically in the camera. I mean, I'm framing, you know. I know here people use the camera man. I'm doing camera man and cinematographer with Michel. I always did it. And it's a dream because you can work on diagonal. You can do close up with the body and everything. And you rediscover all the art, you know. And it's very easy because Michel is a drawer. It's drawer a lot. And he's always in square stuff. When he do his storyboard, whatever. So that's very easy. No, no, it's great. It's great. It's a great format.

1:54You know, we're a good friend. We know each other for seven years now. I've done this tour of the movie. It's this proof spy movie that he did with Jean. We're like a bunch of triangle, you know. We work together. And he was talking like this about, he said, what about doing a silent movie? And I said, well, why not? But I thought it was like doing a silent movie. But in the modern way and everything, he said, oh, I want to do like in the 20s. Black and white and silent in square format. And I said, OK, I'm in. But we're never going to succeed to finance it. And he said, we'll see. And then he worked for a long time. And he was giving me DVDs and all those stuff to look at. And I rediscovered all those movies. And when you are cinematographer, it's like it's a base.

2:40I mean, something if you see this and you understand how it leads and everything, I think you've got all the bases for your job. I mean, it's once in a lifetime. That's what's amazing about the story, is that the movie's once in a lifetime. And maybe what we like living now, it's once in a lifetime.