I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

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.

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

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

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.

When you told me you loved me," Lily's eyes widened when she looked at Lux, "You saved the world.

Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as I get deeper and deeper into the story.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age - unless you're an American of course. Perhaps all our children will be Americans.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

What's good in the hood?