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Black and white films, unfortunately, belong to a certain age. The black and white notion is associated with a certain age. Young people are no longer accustomed to watching black and white films. Lyubich’s films are amazing, they are being currently shown at the French cinema, his black and white is very poetic, but they are not on TV and a whole generation does not want to watch them. Directors, who began to shoot in colour, were the great when I started directing in black and white. And when someone shifted from black and white to colour, he became "great" by default. It is the opposite now. There is no equipment for black and white films processing. It is hard to find black and white film, and laboratories have no way to process it. But poetry in the black and white is unique."

"I can not give advice. But if I should speak with a young person who wants to deal with cinema, I would ask "why does he want to become a director?" - to read his name in the newspapers and on television, because he feels great passion for it or because he wants to get rich. It has to be clear for him to decide. I think the only way of making films is to be passionate about it. Because it is necessary to be devoted, there will be many failures and difficulties that can make a man collapse morally. And if you want to make money – you could take up the TV, there are many ways ... It is very easy today to learn and become a director. You buy a small camera and start shooting small stories. You learn that way. Then producers watch these films and decide whether to support you. And of course, you need ideas to shoot. It is not enough to rely that someone would give you a screenplay to make it. But if there is passion, everything is done, and with a lot of work. Nothing is godsend."

Very short biography:

Gavras moved from Greece to France when quite young and in parallel with his studies at the Faculty of Philology at the Sorbonne he attended directing. He says that only four people of his class of 25 have continued and become directors. Costas Gavras is known for his film Z (1969), starring Yves Montand and Jean-Louis Trintignant which is the symbol of his work. He has made films in Hollywood and was awarded the Oscar for Missing (1982) with Jack Lemmon in the title role. But his films still attract audiences and critics over the past decade - Eden in West (2009), Mad City (1997) with John Travolta and Amen (awarded the Cesar for best screenplay in 2002).