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I decided to live a life crammed with magical moments.
I was granted a long rite-of-passage: forty years filming on the razor's edge.

I must have been born under a lucky star: I was two years old when a V2 missile, deployed over my city by Hitler, blew up the house next-door.

Glass from the windowpanes in my bedroom tore my cradle to bits; I dodged this meeting with the dictator.

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I was 'on an outing' that morning. At the time I was unaware that I would encounter half a dozen other dictators.

When I was thirteen, my mother, who was an artist, lent me her 16mm camera.
From that moment on, handling a camera was second-nature to me…
Nevertheless, my father made it clear that I had to graduate from university to enhance my self-confidence.

I almost forgot about cinema.

Almost… once this mission was accomplished (BA Pol. Sc., BA & MA Eco Sc.), I began studying film at Stanford University, then at UCLA. Meetings with Louis Malle, Roger Vadim and Samuel Fuller were key