The Conception of Paul

"When Paul get killed,
he doesn't die because...
The Messiah is all The Humanity,
can get enlightened.

In The End, His Mind is
the mind of every person.


I changed The End of The Book, evidently!

In the book, it's a continuation.
The Planet never changed.
Is not awake, with a Cosmic Consciousness.
It's not a Messiah, The Planet.

I did that. It's different.
It was My Dune.

When you make a picture,
you must not respect The Novel.

It's like you get married, no?
You go with the wife, white,
the woman is white...
you take the woman,
if you respect the woman,
you will never have Child.

You need to open The Costume and to... To rape The Bride.

And then you will have Your Picture.
I was raping Frank Herbert, raping, like this!
But with Love, with Love.

And then I came with that.
It was such a beautiful object.
So well done and at the time,
there were no photocopies.
It was just photos of each drawing. In color... so well done... with so much detail about the costumes,
about the techniques used.

Every studio have
one book like this.
Every studio.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal,
everything, all them...

Michel Seydoux give a book like that.

This approach was chosen precisely because...
I was thinking they might have a certain distrust of Jodorowsky.
But since we were showing the camera angles,
since we explained each scene...
the way we wanted to film it...
they should have been relieved.

But They weren't.
It wasn't enough.

In Los Angeles, I wasn't optimistic.
The thing is that sometimes The French and The Americans...
have difficult relationships, you know. Well, we have had.

We were almost at the finish line,
but we had to find the last $5 million.
The film cost $15 million.
Well, we estimated it as $15...

We had been invited to Walt Disney studios by the chairman of the board.

He looked through the project and said:
"This is a wonderful project...
but it is like The Concorde.
It's an exceptional plane, but over here, never!"

And there I said to myself
that we were going to face a lot of problems.
They always received us in a very friendly way...
but it was always the same answer.