I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer.
Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.
That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.
We shot that in all the real places where Van Gogh worked.
But the idea of a man being killed during an episode of love and coming back as a woman started to impress me more and more and more.
Having started as a designer I have a lot to do with settings and costumes, because I think they relate to the story and character, explain it.
You have to be a producer nowadays. You have to find the subject, find the writer, find the cameraman, cast it, and then you go to a producer.