And he's not rich, so he probably won't. He gives a sly cackle and puffs on his cigar. But in France, his audience is nothing like it once was, and he's reconciled to his marginal status. In France there are perhaps 100,000 or 200,000 people more or less like me, who might go and see my films. They're fewer than they used to be, because it's too difficult, because the world has changed.
Good films get smaller audiences, but more of the viewer.
They're probably people of my age, who are a bit nostalgic, who feel the world's going wrong. Younger people may sense there's a struggle going on, maybe it's not really their film, but they see the struggle and they respect it. They're glad to see it. It's like going to the museum. People will queue three hours in the rain to see an exhibition, for the sense of images, of a look - they know that's something you can't see every day, and they need that.