When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

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.

A star is only as good as her last picture.

We're taught to trade. We're not taught to give.

You've just got to do the best that you can.

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

Load every rift with ore.

The limitless opportunity of being able to do anything is daunting, but it's also the most rewarding. I'm having the time of my life.

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls.

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.