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

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 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.

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

The highway behind gives me courage to move into the future. I desire to see the first light of tomorrow.

Death chose each of us - both Dark and Light - for a reason. There can't be Light without Dark or Dark without Light.

Not every thought needs to be voiced

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.

In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.

I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me

The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.