An imaginary unpublished interview, from Sacha Guitry, Le cinéma et moi, Paris, Ramsay, 1977:


You – May I ask your opinion and your impressions of this film?
Me – I thought it was vivid and remarkable, for the simple reason that I was seeing the play for the first time. In fact, written in 1914, produced by me at the Vaudeville in 1917, revived at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt in 1926, and finally at the Gymnase last September, it had, in the end, never been possible for me to see it until now.
You – Your impression of seeing the performance?

Me – The impression that I am performing the play of a young man of 29 whom I had once known, and had lost sight of.

You – Have you made any revisions to the play?

Me – None. I don’t see myself collaborating well with such a young man.

You – Do you have an opinion of the play?

Me – I will keep that to myself. Thank heaven I have no critical sense. In the 45 years I have worked as a dramatist, I have frequently observed that people who pretend to know what the public likes are people who have precisely the tendency to consider that the public are idiots. Now I think absolutely the opposite. When the public is not undergoing a crisis of snobbery, I am not far from believing it infallible.