Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of Amélie, who says he sold the rights to aid a cardiac charity: “I hate Broadway. I think it is the very incarnation of tackiness … I can tell you that I will not go to see it, I don’t even want to hear about it, I won’t listen to what they do, but if it brings in some money, well maybe I can save a few lives, and that’s the only reason I accepted.”