Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)

Alice Guy: Self

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• Alice Guy : [1964 interview]  It seemed extraordinary to me. It filled me with adoration. It was the birth of Cinema.

• Alice Guy : [1964 interview]  I would very much have liked to be an actress, because I had friends in theater. But, I had a father that said, "No! Never! Actress?" My father said, "I'd rather see you dead." You know how the bourgeoisie was at the time.

• Alice Guy : [1964 interview]  Those weren't really scenarios at that time, they were just little stories that I would make up.

• Alice Guy : [1957 interview]  I proposed to Monsieur Gaumont that I shoot some scenes. He told me, "Well it's a young girl's thing indeed. Well, you can try. But on the condition, don't let the mail suffer."

• Alice Guy : [1957 interview]  The first films we made always had to have a punchline.

• Alice Guy : [1957 interview]  There was a plain field, with a small terrace made of asphalt. We only had a tripod, which served like a photography tripod, that would go in every direction. And there, with my cameraman, I made my first film, which was "La Fée aux choux".

• Alice Guy : [1964 interview]  I made the Passion, which was my biggest film in France.

• Alice Guy : [1964 interview]  We didn't get married then, but he did ask me at that time. I told him I needed to think about it. I didn't really want to leave France. Actually, I didn't want to marry and Englishman. Englishmen aren't very nice.

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  Alice Guy : [1957 interview]  It is indeed an old story.

  Interviewer : A story that dates back how long, exactly?

  Alice Guy : It dates back to 1896.

  Interviewer : How does it go?

  Alice Guy : You want to know the story?

  Interviewer : Yes.

  Alice Guy : It was my fate, if you will.

• Alice Guy : [1964 Interview]  I put notes all over my studio, "Be Natural". It's all I asked of them.