We went through every possibility without any luck. Then we had an inspiration. There was a newspaper owner in Paris named Pierre Lazareff. He was a very precise and very swift person. I want to see you at three o'clock.
Life is funny.
It takes days and weeks to find the right attitude of music, the right style for this movie. But you have to be stubborn. And then we did The Young Girls Of Rochefort four years later, and we had the same problem with producers. I don't think things have changed much, unfortunately. When I do a score, I have to live with a film for a long time.