The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.

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.

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.

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.

Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again.""Hell, " I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?""Yes. I want to ruin you.""Good, " I said. "That's what I want too.

We don't need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? -Eriond

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

If we get it right, there need not be losers.

The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.

They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

I feel like I have become a living fossil in the fashion world. Without even noticing it, in my own collection I have moved away from the street style.