I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

The best director is the one you don't see.

The forest of Compiegne. Look at it. Like a kind grandmother dozing in her rocking chair. Old trees practicing curtsies in the wind because they still think Louis XIV is king.

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.