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“... that the villagers will now re-remember these events and pass them on in the form given them by Jean-Claude Carrière and Daniel Vigne, or even – who knows? – the form given them by Natalie Davis. With a story that the sources themselves present so dramatically, one might have thought that ...”

“... do with antimatter?’ and ‘Do you practise t’ai chi with someone Chinese?’) the playwright Jean-Claude Carrière suggests that human time is not made out of chronological time but is, as in Ecclesiastes, ‘a time for this and a time for that’. Such times are defined by their purpose rather than their ending, and of the two it is the former ...”

“... them in a book called My Last Breath (1982), which he wrote in collaboration with his scriptwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. Didn’t I gather rich insights into the films? Some, but not as many as you might think. This was manifestly the Buñuel who made Buñuel’s films, there were plenty of continuities between the mind I’d met in the work and the mind ...”

“... most common reaction for Algeria’s prisoners was to flee into oblivion. One day the screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and his wife went to the Seine and threw in all the letters they’d written to each other during the war, two letters a week, for two years.Forgetting wasn’t just a personal decision: it was state policy. As Branche writes, the ...”

“... cry. At nightfall in this quarry a few kilometres outside Avignon, Peter Brook’s staging of Jean-Claude Carrière’s adaptation of The Mahabharata begins. Wisdom-book and story-repository, fifteen times the size of the Bible, The Mahabharata was written in Sanskrit, but the words you hear are French, spoken with a piquant diversity of accents ...”

“... he arrived. Most virulent have been the attacks on what is generally seen as his greatest project, Jean-Claude Carrière’s massive adaptation of the Mahabharata, which has been variously accused of insensitivity, trivialisation, Eurocentrism, neocolonialism, racism and a ‘Messianic paternalism, translating the mysterious into the banal for the ...”