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Radio Author, Theatre, Television, Cinema, Jean Cosmos (1923-2014) said in an interview in 1992 that he "learned on the job. Paradoxically, the profession is paralysed while liberating: we try less, but you are imprisoned in the experience of which self-censorship is the auxiliary constant. He worked with Jean Chatenet (1932-2017): "To two, there is osmosis, mutual trust. It is necessary to work on stories of 26 times 20 minutes, or 14 times 60 minutes. But I do not believe much in collective work; the Anglo-Saxons invented the 'script editor', which revises the texts, entrusts one or other of the parties; it is the author not initially, but at the end. For me, it is a work of technician, not creator.One of the virtues of television is the relationship to the real world, in the daily world, including through sport, the TV newspaper, which gives a soul of the characters of the news. I never embark without what is called "an idea". We need to attach to geographical, historical or professional realities. An example of the 'last five minutes', where professions are set up, which provide a decoration, give a man to a person, explain his psychology. But part of Western cinema is not concerned with the humble profession. Jean Cosmos was the author of adaptations: "The success shall be credited to the original; nozzle, due to the fault of the adaptor! We are attracted by the author, we have his universe in the first place, but we are also moving away from it. And original works: "Sometimes it took seven or ten years for the project to succeed. Television was unbeateable for appointments with long-lasting works, until the dictatorship of the audimat and the advertising masking. People have lost the sense of loyalty to heroes in a given history. In the 1960s and 1970s, there was a fascination for television, of which a generation of directors became aware, claiming cultural responsibility, through work close to that of the teachers of the late nineteenth century; it was political (often in the movement of the Communist ...