If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.

Cinema is dominated by stars you like from the get go.

Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it.

You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.

People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

I decided that one day I had to make a film where the viewer couldn't possibly guess the end.