I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

Money makes even bastards legitimate.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

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