I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

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

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

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

I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.

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