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JEAN COCTEAU
The Art of Fiction No. 34
Interviewed by William Fifield
Issue 32, Summer-Fall 1964
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COCTEAU
Critics? A critic severely criticized my lighting at a Saturday evening opening in Munich. I thanked him but there was no time to change anything for the Sunday matinee. He felicitated me on the improvement. “You see how my suggestions helped?” he said. No, there will always be a conflict between creators and the technicians of the métier.


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