But sometimes I think you have to try to do things that people don't think are doable.

To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.

I guess George Clooney would be a wonderful silent actor, and Leonardo DiCaprio is such a wonderful actor he certainly could do it.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.

I guess all the directors in France are influenced by Hitchcock, because he's the perfect visual director, in my eyes.

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.

Sometimes when an actor says something almost perfect, but you know you have to edit it, if you tell them to change something immediately, it will come out great

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

I make almost all the decisions on set and have to deal with all the financial aspects.

I want to thank three person: I want to thank Billy Wilder. I want to thank Billy Wilder. And I want to thank Billy Wilder.

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

In the river swam the gleaming fish, which were meant for water, just as humankind is meant for love.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

I'm gonna be Iron, like a Lion in Zion

I don't do flash fiction.

He [Pope Fransis] insists very clearly that only a union between man and woman, open to new life, by principle, can be called a marriage.

Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).

As young Americans, you have an important responsibility, which is to become good citizens.

I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.

To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.