Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.

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.

If is see darkness in Christians, I bring light to them.

All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die?

It used to be that nobody would really argue with a woman, because what she thought (unless it was by way of providing helpful comments about one's own work) just didn't matter.

We've issued a game-changing new rule that says for each one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated. Makes sense. Nobody's ever seen regulations like we have.

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

If I was a part of secret ninja group my power would be the power of apology. I would just apologize emphatically and freely. And my mech might just be a phone to send apologetic emails from.

I was actually hoping the Royals would pick me. It was the main team I wanted to go to. Their colors are Royal blue and that's my favorite color.?