I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, ‘Walt Disney.’ I wanted to make films. But I wasn’t offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels.

– Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

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