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[about her stay at the Grand Hôtel during WW2] It was extraordinary. We'd met producers on the terraces, we'd go out on boats for picnics on the island. We were far from the war. And then people began to leave, the producers, most of the producers were Jewish.

[on working in film during WW2] I was making Paris Frills (1945) with Jacques Becker and we'd take the métro home in the morning. There were often members of the milice on the métro, and one in particular struck me. After the war, I found myself standing in line for something and he was in front of me. I said to him, 'I remember you very well'. He didn't reply.

[on Nazi-occupied France] I detested the Germans and did my best not to see them. It wasn't an act of heroism, it wasn't active resistance, it was an attitude. I'd play cards at a friend's house or I'd meet a group of young people like myself at cafés. We'd talk, but we were careful. A very good friend of mine, Joël Le Tac, was in the resistance, but I didn't know. He'd go away for a while -only later did I learn he often traveled to London- and then he'd come back. No questions. Only when he was arrested did I understand. I managed to get some food to him at La Santé prison, then he was deported to Dechau. But he survived.