Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies

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.

All you need is a vision and everything else will fall in place. Trust me

Treat your friends as you do your picture and place them in their best light.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

I think the anti-intellectualism of a lot of contemporary fiction is a kind of despairing of literature's ability to be anything more than perfectly bound blog posts or transcribed sitcoms.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little

Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

When I was modeling, I worked out every day or other day.