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.

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

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.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.