"FILMMAKER: In Amélie, you are working with locations and exteriors for the first time, but the way you've manipulated the images in postproduction "interiorizes" it all in a way. JEUNET: I tried to work outside as if I was on a stage. We modified a lot of the reality. But it was important that the film take place in the Paris of today, not in some kind of timeless dimension. For example, we changed things on the walls, got rid of graffiti, added signs. We made sure there were modern objects, ugly things in the corners of rooms. Then in postproduction, if we did not like a face in one corner, "Bye-bye people." FILMMAKER: Again, the idea of every frame like a painting. JEUNET: Yes. I hate white skies."
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Jean-Pierre Jeunet, "Magnificent Obsession", Film Maker (Fall, 2001).
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