I Get Called Jacqueline Bissette In America. In France, I Get Called Jackie Bisset. And Actually, It Is Jacqueline Bisset, Which Is Not That Easy To Say.
Although All New Ideas Are Born In France, They Are Not Readily Adopted There. It Seems That They Must First Commence To Prosper In A Foreign Country.
Literature In France Seems To Be Undergoing A Crisis Now, And Nothing Comes Immediately To Mind.
I Discovered Feminism Around 1970-72-precisely The Time When Feminism Began To Exist In France. Before That, There Was No Feminism.
I Think My Best Work Has Been In France With Great Men. It's Been My Great Fortune To Work With Really Great Men - With Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I Am Tutored By Them.
My Parents Sent Me To Montreal Because I Kept Getting Kicked Out Of School In France.
The Sickly Cultural Pathos Which The Whole Of France Indulges In, That Fetishism Of The Cultural Heritage.
France At The Dinner Table In Faraway Places; But Here, Among Ourselves, In The Family, Let Us Face The Facts: France Is Not Poetic; To Tell The Truth, She Even Feels A Congenital Horror Of Poetry. Among The Writers Who Use Verse, Those Whom She Will Always Prefer Are The Most Prosaic.
France: As A Professional Journalist, I Like The Idea Of A Society Where It Is Considered An Acceptable Occupation To Basically Sit Around And Drink.