You don’t adapt novels but rather the enduring sensation that they leave you with. There’s one thing that people rarely talk about and yet is vital in our lives: dreaming. I don’t mean night dreams but daydreams. They are man’s best companion, wonders of existence. Thoughts often travel through them and then settle. Reading also does this: the eyes leave the page for a second and we’re off on a thousand journeys, a thousand projects. That said, a film isn’t a dream. But at the origins of a film, there is this feeling, like ‘déjà-vu’, like ‘a memory of the present’. Then, through the writing and shooting stages, you investigate this feeling of ‘déjà-vu’. — Leos Carax

You don’t adapt novels but rather the enduring sensation that they leave you with. There’s one thing that people rarely talk about and yet is vital in our lives: dreaming. I don’t mean night dreams but daydreams. They are man’s best companion, wonders of existence. Thoughts often travel through them and then settle. Reading also does this: the eyes leave the page for a second and we’re off on a thousand journeys, a thousand projects. That said, a film isn’t a dream.

But at the origins of a film, there is this feeling, like ‘déjà-vu’, like ‘a memory of the present’.

Then, through the writing and shooting stages, you investigate this feeling of ‘déjà-vu’.

— Leos Carax

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