It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

Being recognized by Hollywood is a dream true; it's really an amazing moment.

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.

My dad always, he helped me by not helping me. He always said, being a producer, it was all about conviction.

I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.

Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"

Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.

Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

I don't like to say mean things about people's hard work.

Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport -- two armed entrées battling to see who'll be dinner.

Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.