British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings.Beginnings happen because there are endings.

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

I'm a real big electronic music nut; when I was young I listened to musique concrète, German music from Cologne in the early 50s, all kinds of stuff.

I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.

I don't want to be empty on the inside.

There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.

I just want to build great products.