“I believe that a production should be based on feeling—again, on the idea of communion. I mean a communion among the artist, the actors, the audience, and the wider world. After all, when you listen to great music—let’s say a piece by Mozart—it’s a direct conversation that you’re having with him. Mozart is sitting there in a chair, you’re sitting next to him, and you proceed to have a talk—in a musical language that is pleasant and even moving. And I believe that the less Mozart or any artist talks about himself, the more, finally, he gives of himself in communal terms.”
Jean Renoir, interviewed by Gideon Bachmann (Contact, June 1960)