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And, in any case, imagination is more enjoyable. Imagined and factual things have the same influence on events. In sum, I believe that it is a big mistake to underestimate the part of reality that is commonly called “imagination”. I believe that what man would like to do is real too. But I don’t believe that only what man does is real. Vadim: Not at all! I like reality very much. Ornella: You dislike reality, then? Are you a fan of escapism? One can easily say that Brigitte Bardot entered the history of cinema like a Martian… And even the realist authors I adapted for the screen managed to strike me only when they clashed against reality. Just think of how conventional was female psychology before Et Dieu… créa la femme / …And God Created Woman (1956). Indeed, my greatest ambition is to bring to the screen human relationships that have never been seen before.

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We are free to imagine all sorts of planets without any relation to our world – planets full of individuals with feelings and behaviors completely different from the ones we know. Ornella: Do you think that sci-fi is more ductile?

Maybe because I felt that the audience wasn’t prepared enough to welcome my ideas. I myself haven’t gone as far as I wanted and want to. If you consider that cinema is the only medium that allows you to “see” ghosts, apparitions and marvels in action, how can you underestimate the extraordinary potential of the fantastic genre? Only a minimal fraction of this potential has been explored so far, due to the lack of resources and to the filmmakers’ lack of courage. Vadim: A lesser genre? For me the fantastic is the future of cinema. Ornella: In any case, you don’t consider the fantastic as a lesser genre? And fear – nobody can deny it – is a feeling that by now has become too ordinary, too commonplace. When we enter the realm of the “fantastic”, there is always someone (the protagonist of the story, the spectator or the reader) who is afraid of something. For me, the fantastic has the fault of being based on a psychology that is connected too much to the everyday. However, I like them both, even if I am perhaps more partial to sci-fi. Roger Vadim: I know that it is rare that a person is interested in both the sci-fi and the fantastic, because an abyss separates the two genres.

Do you prefer the fantastic or the sci-fi genre? Ornella Volta: Roger Vadim, so far you have made two movies that belong to the fantastic genre, Il sangue e la rosa (based on a Sheridan Le Fanu novella) and Metzengerstein (based on an Edgar Allan Poe short story ), and one science-fiction film, Barbarella (1968).