Jaco van dormael interview questions

- Cinergie met with the Belgian director of Toto the Hero and The Eighth Day, while he was in the middle of filming the highly ambitious Mr. Nobody

After two films both of which were hits among critics and audiences alike (Totò the Hero, The Eighth Day), Jaco Van Dormael is back on the big screen with Mr. Nobody [+see also:
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interview: Jaco Van Dormael
interview: Jaco Van Dormael
film profile], the most expensive Belgian film ever (€33m), some international stars and three different countries (news). We meet the director in Brussels, in a 14,000m2 studio where the different lives of Nemo are being filmed.

Cinergie: It took you a few years before returning to cinema. Why?
Jaco Van Dormael: First, I lived (laughs). And secondly because I’m a slow writer. As long as I have the feeling that nothing’s happening, I try to look for the form that suits m