If journalists come each time it is because they know what to expect [à quoi s’en tenir]. They know that there will be ‘sport’ … The immense ‘fun’ [drôlerie] of it all … One can guess what questions are going to be asked in advance. The important thing is to work out a text synthesizing the answers I want to make. Then either I am asked the questions I want and I reply; or they do not and I deviate the conversation on to the ground that I have chosen in advance. Or they ask a question I do not want to answer and in that case I sidetrack to another answer … What matters above all is to prepare
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