Georges Simenon's son: “He wrote when we were in school, being a father was his first job. He would pay money to my grandmother but she would not accept it and would buy gold coins.”

John Simenon, film producer and administrator of his father's copyright, curated an exhibition in Bologna with Gian Luca Farinelli, director of the Cineteca: “The best Maigret? One of the first, Pierre Renoir. But I also like Gérard Depardieu, as an actor I'm not arguing about it.”