I decided long ago that "Blue All the Way to America" would be my first feature film, and it was thanks to Didier Boujard and Martine de Clermont that this became a reality. My motivation for making it was not just that it was based on personal experience. As a scriptwriter I had already worked on very different subjects and this one, to my knowledge, had been rarely written about. It was an opportunity to write about a universe unknown to most of us yet right there in the midst of us. In order to describe this microcosm hidden behind the walls of rehabilitation centers, I had to abandon the documentary approach for something different, verging on the fantastic. I had to throw away good taste and write an adventure film about revenge, love, conflicts and betrayal. Action, violence and movement could seem paradoxical in a film about the physically disabled. Only superficially. Because in the particular world I am describing - much more than elsewhere - reality far outstrips fiction.

Sarah Lévy - Director