I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and blood.

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.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

A crack on the road does not terminate the journey

Becoming unshakeable through this storm.

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage.

I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.

What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular.

Whatever your career may be, do not let yourselves become tainted by a deprecating and barren scepticism.

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

When people give away stocks based on forced selling or fear that is usually a great opportunity.

Count your blessings. Every time I am doing bad I count my blessings. And I always lose count. Try that sometime.