Assayas speaks of film, art over tea
For Olivier Assayas — the French director of “Paris, Je T’aime” — filmmaking is deeply connected to instinct and intuition.
“What you’re looking for in art, you can’t exactly verbalize,” he said at a Saybrook College Master’s Tea on Thursday. “You look for something that is what your instinct draws you to.”

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