This book is the text of an interview with the French film-maker, Jean Cocteau. It is the corrected edition, with a new introduction by George Amberg, of the English translation of the early 1950 conversation in French. Cocteau discusses the aesthetics, creative aspects, and production processes of his own films and films in general. His approach is widely humanistic in scope and advances the classical idea of the poet as "an inspired maker" who works in a variety of media rather than just with words. On this basis, he says, film-makers can be termed "poets," and Cocteau considers himself an auteur or poet of the cinema. (CH)