Claire Taylor

So many years, so many films. Triumphs and disasters, but never a cross word exchanged. The high point has to be "Secrets & Lies": no script, no known actors, I demanded a huge amount of money, on the basis of a rough cut I had screened a week earlier. You believed me, and we all were ecstatic with the success. But oh, "Underground", the heartache it caused us all. We put you through possibly the worst delivery in history, which aged us all 10 years at last, and after all that, a searing article in Le Figaro turned all the french speakers away from the movie, leaving our masterpiece in box office tatters. "It doesn't matter", we all said, "it is still one of the great cinematic milestones of the decade", but secretly we were devastated. Thank God friendship and a similar taste in movies kept us all going. It has always been, and continues to be such a pleasure to work with such a bunch of remarkable people, particularly Eliane, who fills us all with awe, for what she has achieved.