by
George Plimpton
(editor)
Interviewer: Do you keep a sort of abstract potential reader or viewer in mind when you work?
Cocteau: You are always concentrated on the inner thing. The moment one becomes aware of the crowd, performs for the crowd, it is spectacle. It is fichu.
('A fichu is a large, square kerchief worn by women to fill in the low neckline of a bodice. ' - like, decorative?)